Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early RepublicSentimentalism, sex, the construction of the modern body, and the origins of American liberalism all come under scrutiny in this rich discussion of political life in the early republic. Here Bruce Burgett enters into debates over the "public sphere," a concept introduced by Jurgen Habermas that has led theorists to grapple with such polarities as public and private, polity and personality, citizenship and subjection. With the literary public sphere as his primary focus, Burgett sets out to challenge the Enlightenment opposition of reason and sentiment as the fundamental grid for understanding American political culture. |
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... Lauren Berlant, Sarge Bush, Bob Fanuzzi, Glenn Hendler, Gordon Hutner, Tom Schaub, Maurice Wallace, Michael Warner, and Sarah Zimmerman. Jay Fliegelman and Linda Zerilli—my two readers at Princeton University Press—provided crucial ...
... Lauren Berlant makes this point nicely: “Wherever citizenship comes to look like a question of the body, a number of processes are being hidden. The body's seeming obviousness distracts attention from the ways it organizes meaning, and ...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 1998 |
Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 2001 |