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Abigail and John Adams : the Americanization of sensibility /
During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, they wove a tapestry of correspondence that has beco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.