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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... United States—History—19th century. 3. Politics and literature—United States—History—18th century. 4. United States—Intellectual life—1783–1865. 5. Gender identity in literature. 6. Sentimentalism in literature. 7. Body, Human, in ...
... United States. Drawing on the materialist and sensationalist psychology of the early Enlightenment, the sentimental literary culture of the period relied upon readers' affective, passionate, and embodied responses to fictive characters ...
... United States early in the 1790s, Wollstonecraft's reading of the Revolution replaces any reactionary “dislike and contempt” for its “progress” with her own sympathetic articulation of the democratic and republican principles that lay ...
... United States: “There is a difference between the French and 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 ...
... United States not only as an exception within an otherwise universal narrative, but also as a displaced example of European false consciousness, a sort of lumpenfrance. The political effects of this socialist narrative are as well known ...
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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 |