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

Draws on the correspondence between Abigail and John Adams during the American Revolution to explore a relationship threatened by separation, a country in its infancy, and the earliest understandings of what it means to be American.

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Main Author: Barker-Benfield, G. J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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505 0 |a 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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