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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... Letters: Hannah Foster's The Coquette 81 5. Masochism and Male Sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard 112 PART THREE: SENTIMENT AND SEXUALITY 135 137 6. Obscene Publics: Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacobs 7. Afterword ...
... Letters of the Republic, Warner makes this claim most persuasively. Republicanism structures the way in which we think about the “styles of rationalization and progressive thinking that we call modernity,” because the central terms of ...
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