Sensibility and the American Revolution

Sarah Knott is associate professor of history at Indiana University and coeditor of Women, Gender, and Enlightenment.
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"A stimulating book, beautifully edited and produced."--American Historical Review

"Knott appealingly bridges the two disciplines [18th century history and literature] with her discerning, well-organized analysis. . . . This richly reflective book is a comprehensive and sophisticated study of emotionalism and community."--Journal of American History

"This is an immensely stimulating book, one with valuable lessons for cultural historians of late eighteenth-century Britain. . . . Knott here achieves a remarkable breadth in constructing her arguments across so many different fields, while at the same time retaining a carefully structured narrative."--History Workshop Journal

"A luminous, crisply written intellectual history. . . . A masterful book. . . . A book which will, in short order, show us a new way of examining the foundation of American society and culture."--Journal of Social History

“Ambitious, demanding, and provocative.”--William and Mary Quarterly

"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."--Jan Lewis, Rutgers University, Newark