Enthusiasms and Loyalties: The Public History of Private Feelings in the Enlightenment Atlantic

How emotions made and unmade communities during the age of revolutions.

In Enthusiasms and Loyalties Keith Grant draws on a fascinating range of archival sources from Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, during the years 1770–1850 to explore a diversity of public feelings, from disaffected Loyalists and unfeeling enthusiasts, as well as passionate patriots and ecstatic revivalists, in the revolutionary and Enlightenment Atlantic.