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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... position”), “politics” expands to include virtually all forms of sociality, including intimate and corporeal relations. In doing so, it threatens to collapse the structural boundary between political and social life without which the ...
... positions the body not only at, but also as the vanishing point of the body politic. The Politics of the Body While this historical recovery of republicanism resulted in what Robert Shallope referred to in 1972 as a “republican ...
... position the body within republicanism as both a tool of domination and a site of contradiction. Where Warner focuses on the first of these two deployments of the body, I focus on the second. The body can provide a tool of domination—a ...
... position the body as resistant, yet malleable matter—the liminal substance that, as Jonathan Elmer puts it, sentimental reform “both needs, and needs to regulate.”49 What the studies I draw upon tend to overlook, however, are the ...
... positions it as a site of political contestation, a public “question” whose answer may not be as “obvious” as Berlant implies ... position “society” as the basis of political autonomy, the isolation of the body from society could locate ...
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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 |