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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... later political theorists, ranging from Alexis de Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt. Tocqueville's Democracy in America famously differentiates between the French and American Revolutions by suggesting that, unlike the former, the latter was ...
... later and after the failed European revolutions of 1848, Friedrich Engels alludes to “the special American conditions.”14 In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Marx's interpretive struggle to account for this failure forces him ...
... later chapters, she reappears as part of a republican tradition due to her attention to the social (gender and class) inequalities hidden by that opposition. This example teaches neither that liberalism and republicanism are hopelessly ...
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