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Abigail and John Adams
G. J. Barker-Benfield
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Description for Abigail and John Adams
Hardback. During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. This title brings together their correspondence with a detail about life and thought, courtship and sex, gender and parenting, and class and politics in the revolutionary generation and beyond. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 830.
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 reflected - and helped transform - a language of sensibility, inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming Americanized. ... Read more
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 reflected - and helped transform - a language of sensibility, inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming Americanized. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226037431
SKU
V9780226037431
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About G. J. Barker-Benfield
G. J. Barker-Benfield is professor of history at the University at Albany. He is the author of The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes toward Women in Nineteenth-Century America and The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Reviews for Abigail and John Adams
"G. J. Barker-Benfield knows how to captivate a reader. His engagement with the inner strengths and utter humanity of Abigail and John is just the beginning of this ingenious and expansive study of the intellectual underpinnings of sensibility and the practical uses to which it was put in Revolutionary America. The author, already well known for his readings of Anglo-American ... Read more