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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... origin and progress” of the French Revolution with a political critique that similarly interweaves the themes of the body and the body politic. Drawing a scatological analogy between these two bodies, Wollstonecraft argues that France ...
... origins of modernity. In doing so, it effaces the continued challenge posed to that liberalism by democratic forms of republicanism (including those of Lefort and Habermas). In accordance with this interpretation, Wood concludes by ...
... origins of these sentimental strategies.50 The nineteenth-century culture of sentiment emerges out of early ... origin upon which political, ethical, and theological systems are then erected. The body, in Thomas Laqueur's words, is ...
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