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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... American literature—1783–1850—History and criticism. 2. Politics and literature—United States—History—19th century. 3. Politics and literature—United States—History—18th century. 4. United States—Intellectual life—1783–1865. 5. Gender ...
... Juxtaposing the French and the American Revolutions in a move that would soon become a commonplace of democratic political theory, Wollstonecraft reason.”12 accordingly faults the French revolutionaries, in contrast to the INTRODUCTION 5.
... American Revolution. In America no barbarities were perpetrated—no men's heads were struck upon poles—no ladies' bodies mangled .... The Americans ... set limits to their vices, at which their pursuits rested.”10 She also shares it with ...
... American states only as an example” while, less than ten years later and after the failed European revolutions of 1848, Friedrich Engels alludes to “the special American conditions.”14 In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon ...
... America for suggesting that the “symbolic” significance of terms like “'fellow,' 'society' and 'humanity' can only be reconciled with freedom if the representation of their realization is held in check”: “The desire to realize it would ...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett Limited preview - 1998 |
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 |