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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... 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 literature. 8. Citizenship in ...
... Century,” 1992)1 Reading the Revolutions Much recent cultural criticism has identified the public sphere as a crucial category for rethinking the oppositions that have haunted political discourse at least since the democratic ...
... century theorists of republicanism that a society is democratic only if it provides sites of public opinion formation that are both accessible and influential. Habermas's recent, more theoretical writings extend this insight into the ...
... century allowed citizens to imagine forms of political authority that were rational and noncoercive to the degree that they were abstract and disembodied. Citizens, in other words, gained political power only insofar as they were able ...
... century public sphere, as well as their uses of that reconstruction as a normative foundation for contemporary critical theory and practice.44 In the most general sense, these are the debates in which Sentimental Bodies participates ...
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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 |