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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... figure for personal autonomy.56 In each case, the body and its sensations emerge as the site of the political ... figures the 16 CHAPTER 1.
... figures the centrality of the body by drawing on the most powerful of all sentimental tropes, the heart. Understood as a site of authentic “feeling,” the heart provides a universal and pre-political point of affective identification for ...
... figure of a “brutish” and “unenlightened” body promises to prevent any such duplicitous body politics by transcending the oppositions that I invoked at the beginning of this introduction: literature and politics, theory and practice ...
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