On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage - 9780814750896

On the Sources of Patriarchal RageThe Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Kenneth A. Lockridge\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814750896, 978-0814750896\nSynopsis\n\""A brilliant . . . analysis of the fragile hegemony and identities of colonial Virginia's elite men. . . . On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage compellingly illuminates the ragged edge where masculinity and colonial identity meet. . . . [the book] will undoubtedly send Jefferson scholars scurrying back to their notes. . . . Most significant, by being among the first to tackle the subject of masculinity in early America, Lockridge forces colonial scholars to reexamine the lives of men they thought they already knew too well.\""\n ?William and Mary Quarterly\nTwo of the greatest of Virginia gentlemen, William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson, each kept a commo.