Abigail and John Adams [electronic resource] : the Americanization of sensibility / G. J. Barker-Benfield.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barker-Benfield, G. J.
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility
Format: Electronic eBook
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.