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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... provide me with intellectual prodding and encouragement, while other colleagues—new and old—have read and usefully criticized all or part of this book: Kate Adams, Dale Bauer, Lauren Berlant, Sarge Bush, Bob Fanuzzi, Glenn Hendler ...
... provides the human realization of political emancipation. On the one hand, the liberal and socialist narratives split in their assessments of the relative merits of the French and American Revolutions; on the other hand, they concur in ...
... provides a useful starting point for this investigation of the political and cultural history of sentimentalism in the United States. Lefort argues that the liberal attempt to purify the political sphere of its social contaminants and ...
... provide a regulative horizon for ideological practice and ensure that that horizon never becomes identifiable with any historically specifiable set of actions or actors. In accordance with this distinction, Lefort separates “modern ...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 2001 |