Abigail and John Adams
Subtitle: the Americanization of sensibility
By: G. J. Barker-Benfield.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226037431
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins, definitions, and social circumstances; title: The metropolitan sources of the Adamses' views of sensibility; title: The meanings of sensibility; title: The theory of gendered sensibility; title: Social circles and the reformation of female manners; title: Young American women enter the world; title: Particular applications; title: A woman's struggle over sensibility; title: Sensibility and reform; title: Abigail's perspective, public versus private; title: John Adams and the reformation of male manners; title: The pleasures and pains of public life; title: Private perpetuation; title: Raising children with sensibility; title: A reformed rake?; title: The question answered; title: Conclusion; title: The Americanization of sensibility.