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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... addresses are not new. Mary Wollstonecraft, for one, concludes her 1794 history of the “origin and progress” of the French Revolution with a political critique that similarly interweaves the themes of the body and the body politic ...
... address, the cultural discourse of sentimentalism bridges this gap by manifesting both the forms of mediation that promise to make social relations republican and the forms of embodiment that promise to make political relations ...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett Limited preview - 1998 |
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 2001 |