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Abigail and John Adams : the Americanization of sensibility / G. J. Barker-Benfield.
LIBRA E322 .B37 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker-Benfield, G. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818.
- Adams, Abigail.
- Adams, John, 1735-1826.
- Adams, John.
- Sentimentalism.
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--1775-1783.
- United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 501 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Origins, definitions, and social circumstances
- The metropolitan sources of the Adamses' views of sensibility
- The meanings of sensibility
- The theory of gendered sensibility
- Social circles and the reformation of female manners
- Young American women enter the world
- Particular applications
- A woman's struggle over sensibility
- Sensibility and reform
- Abigail's perspective, public versus private
- John Adams and the reformation of male manners
- The pleasures and pains of public life
- Private perpetuation
- Raising children with sensibility
- A reformed rake?
- The question answered
- Conclusion
- The Americanization of sensibility.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226037431
- 0226037436
- OCLC:
- 537308944
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