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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... cultural criticism has identified the public sphere as a crucial category for rethinking the oppositions that have ... culture of the period relied upon readers' affective, passionate, and embodied responses to fictive characters and ...
... culture by exploring the boundaries that divide private from public life, civil from state authority, subjection from citizenship, in post-revolutionary political theory and cultural practice. The questions this study addresses are not ...
... cultural project of rendering republicanism modern requires a reimagining of the relation between the structural conditions of a republican body politic and the politics of the democratic bodies that inhabit those structures ...
... cultural pressures placed upon a republican body politic in the process of becoming democratic. Briefly stated, this crisis reflects a tension between two meanings of the term “politics.” Understood in the broad sense as a name for the ...
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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 |