C Dallett Hemphill

Biographic Data

ID1043058
NAMEC Dallett Hemphill
GIVEN NAMESC Dallett
FAMILY NAMEHemphill
SIGNATUREHEMPHILL C D
AFFILIATIONSUrsinus College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • Book of Ages

    C Dallett HemphillARTICLEJournal of American History2014Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Get access Jill Lepore. (New York: Knopf, 2013. xvi, 442 pp. $27.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Page 559, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau462 Published: 01 September 2014

  • Discerning Characters

    C Dallett HemphillARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    Christopher J. Lukasik's Discerning Characters explores literary answers to the problem of how to communicate distinction in a democratizing America. In four initial chapters, he shows how some authors of postrevolutionary seduction fiction promoted the physiognomy of Johann Lavater (the reading of character from unalterable facial features) to address the troubling problem of dissimulation and social mobility fueled by Lord Chesterfield's best-s…

  • An American Aristocracy

    C Dallett Hemphill, Daniel KilbrideARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2008

    Placing class rather than race or gender at the center of this comparative study of North and South, Kilbride exposes the close connections that united privileged southerners and Philadelphians in the years leading to the Civil War. He finds that the bonds between these similarly educated and socialized groups to be so durable that they resisted sectional warfare. Kilbride notes that southern planters were drawn particularly to Philadelphia becau…

  • The Sedgwicks in Love

    C Dallett HemphillARTICLEJournal of American History2007

    Using family letters, Timothy Kenslea tells an engrossing story of the courtships and marriages of the Sedgwicks at the turn of the nineteenth century. He begins with the family patriarch, Theodore, and his unfortunate wife, Pamela Dwight. Pamela suffered from both Theodore's continued devotion to a dead first wife and his absences from the family home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, while he served in state and national government. Kenslea hints …

  • Bowing to Necessities

    Tamara Plakins Thornton, C Dallett HemphillARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

    How men and women interact, the respect young show old and old show young, and who doffs their hat to whom provides a telling window on American cultural history. Bowing To Necessities is the chronologically most wide-ranging study, covering the long period of 1620 to 1860, of its kind. Working through two centuries of conduct literature, Professor Hemphill provides a wonderful retelling of American history to the Civil War, illuminating crucial …

  • Bowing to Necessities

    Stuart M Blumin, Stuart Μ Blumin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620–1860. By C. Dallett Hemphill. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 310 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-512557-6.) Get access Stuart M. Blumin Stuart M. Blumin Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1466, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674757 Pu…

  • From Courtesy to Civility

    Karen Halttunen, Anna Bryson et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

  • Ebb Tide in New England

    C Dallett Hemphill, Elaine Forman Crane et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000

    Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 16301800. By Elaine Forman Crane. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 333. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.95.) Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860. By Carolyn J. Lawes. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Pp. x, 265. Illustrations. $39.95.) Both of these books make significant contributions to the continuing discussion of the status and experie…

  • Life with Father

    C Dallett Hemphill, Stephen M Frank et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. By Stephen M. Frank. Baltimore, A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender. Ed. by Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone. New York and Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal. By Anya Jabour. Baltimore Get access C. Dallett Hemphill C. Dallett Hemphill Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsy…

  • Middle Class Rising in Revolutionary America

    C Dallett HemphillARTICLEJournal of Social History1996Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Middle Class Rising in Revolutionary America: The Evidence from Manners Get access C. Dallett Hemphill C. Dallett Hemphill Ursinus College, Department of HistoryCollegeville, PA 19426 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issue 2, Winter 1996, Pages 317–344, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/30.2.317 Published: 01 December 1996

  • The Profane, the Civil, & the Godly

    C Dallett Hemphill, Richard P GildrieARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1995

  • The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

    C Dallett Hemphill, Elizabeth Drinker et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1993

  • Rudeness and Civility

    C Dallett Hemphill, John F KassonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1991

  • Women in Court

    C Dallett HemphillARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1982

    I T is a commonplace of historical observation that social functions, activities, and behavior are differentiated by gender and that customary sex roles change over time. Yet even for a society as closely studied as that of seventeenth-century New England,' the distribution and changing content of men's and women's roles remain obscure. Local court records furnish useful and still largely untapped information on sex roles. They provide explicit d…