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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... identity in literature. 6. Sentimentalism in literature. 7. Body, Human, in literature. 8. Citizenship in literature. 9. Sex role in literature. I. Title. PS217.P64B87 1998 810.9′358—dc21 98-6479 CIP This book has been composed in ...
... identity-based political ideologies.27 The second implication of Lefort's argument is structural. As his own phrasing reveals, the name for the “empty place” that institutionalizes the theoretical “locus” of democratic “power” is the ...
... identity were disrupted and unmasked through the convergence of two rhetorics of social protest: the abolitionist concern with claiming personhood for the racially distinct and physically owned slave body, and the feminist concern with ...
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