ISBN:
9780226037431
,
0226037436
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 501 S.
,
24 cm
DDC:
973.4/4092
Keywords:
Adams, Abigail
;
Adams, John
;
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
;
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
;
USA
;
Adams, Abigail 1744-1818
;
Adams, John 1735-1826
;
Empfindsamkeit
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
