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Sarah Knott

Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-3198-4 $65.00
Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-5918-6 $24.95

Copyright 2009 by The University of North Carolina Press

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Sarah Knott's richly cosmopolitan account of the many senses of sensibility in the American Revolution offers a bold and illuminating solution to the urgent challenge of linking social transformation with the reshaping of selves. A landmark in eighteenth-century cultural history tout court.

This book provides a wide range of sites where sensibility shaped American Revolutionary experiences. With an impressive sense of the nuances of social and cultural history, Knott offers consistently provocative readings of the culture of refined feeling. She untangles the relations among medical theory, moral philosophy, and print culture in ways that will be of real interest to scholars across fields.

In tracing the arc of the history of sensibility, Knott gives us a new way of framing the cultural history of the American Revolution. One of the most original, insightful, and provocative works in early American history that I have read in some time.