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Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility

G.J. Barker-Benfield

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Description: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 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 reflectedOCoand helped transformOCoa language of sensibility, inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming Americanized. SensibilityOCoa heightened moral consciousness of feeling, rooted in the theories of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Adam Smith and including a OC moral senseOCO akin to the physical sensesOCothreads 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 OC abhorrence of injustice and inhumanityOCO 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"atakes readers into the heart of an unforgettable union in order to illuminate the first days of our nationOCoand explore our earliest understandings of what it might mean to be an American."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility. To get started finding Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 514

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226037444

Description: 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 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 reflectedOCoand helped transformOCoa language of sensibility, inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming Americanized. SensibilityOCoa heightened moral consciousness of feeling, rooted in the theories of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Adam Smith and including a OC moral senseOCO akin to the physical sensesOCothreads 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 OC abhorrence of injustice and inhumanityOCO 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"atakes readers into the heart of an unforgettable union in order to illuminate the first days of our nationOCoand explore our earliest understandings of what it might mean to be an American."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility. To get started finding Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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