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Author/Creator:Barker-Benfield, G. J.
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Title:Abigail and John Adams : the Americanization of sensibility / G. J. Barker-Benfield.
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ISBN:9780226037431 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226037436 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Published/Created:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Links:Online book (login required)
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Variant and related titles:Internet Archive collection.
- Format:Book
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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Subjects:Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818.
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Sentimentalism.
United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
United States--Social life and customs--1775-1783.
United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15307896