LEADER 04014nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910458767503321 005 20210518005723.0 010 $a1-282-90176-1 010 $a9786612901768 010 $a0-226-03744-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226037448 035 $a(CKB)2670000000060669 035 $a(EBL)616027 035 $a(OCoLC)688291762 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000410835 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12121659 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000410835 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10353685 035 $a(PQKB)11717130 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616027 035 $a(DE-B1597)524003 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226037448 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL616027 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10431316 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL290176 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000060669 100 $a20100223d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|uu|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAbigail and John Adams$b[electronic resource] $ethe Americanization of sensibility /$fG. J. Barker-Benfield 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (514 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-03743-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Origins, Definitions, and Social Circumstances --$tPart II. Particular Applications --$tPart III. Private Perpetuation --$tPart IV. Conclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aDuring 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 become a cherished part of American history and literature. With Abigail and John Adams, historian G. J. Barker-Benfield mines those familiar letters to a new purpose: teasing out the ways in which they reflected-and helped transform-a language of sensibility, inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming Americanized. Sensibility-a heightened moral consciousness of feeling, rooted in the theories of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Adam Smith and including a "moral sense" akin to the physical senses-threads throughout these letters. As Barker-Benfield makes clear, sensibility was the fertile, humanizing ground on which the Adamses not only founded their marriage, but also the "abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity" they and their contemporaries hoped to plant at the heart of the new nation. Bringing together their correspondence with a wealth of fascinating detail about life and thought, courtship and sex, gender and parenting, and class and politics in the revolutionary generation and beyond, Abigail and John Adams draws a lively, convincing portrait of a marriage endangered by separation, yet surviving by the same ideas and idealism that drove the revolution itself. A feast of ideas that never neglects the real lives of the man and woman at its center, Abigail and John Adams takes readers into the heart of an unforgettable union in order to illuminate the first days of our nation-and explore our earliest understandings of what it might mean to be an American. 606 $aSentimentalism 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1775 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1775-1783 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1783-1865 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSentimentalism. 676 $a973.4/4092 676 $aB 700 $aBarker-Benfield$b G. J$0321714 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458767503321 996 $aAbigail and John Adams$92221466 997 $aUNINA