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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... questions concerning the accuracy of this historiography, what interests me in it is the consistency with which each of these defenses of republican principles leads its author to abstract political from social issues, and then to ...
... Question,” for instance, refers to “the North American states only as an example” while, less than ten years later and after the failed European revolutions of 1848, Friedrich Engels alludes to “the special American conditions.”14 In ...
... question ... that lies at the heart of democracy.”23 This rethinking of democracy has implications that are political in both the broad and the narrow senses outlined above.24 The first of these implications is ideological and has been ...
... questions concerning the infrastructure of democratic citizenship. Among the studies of the early republic influenced by Pocock are some of the most challenging recent accounts of that period's literary culture. Though their conclusions ...
... question of the body, a number of processes are being hidden. The body's seeming obviousness distracts attention from the ways it organizes meaning, and diverts the critical gaze from publicity's role in the formation of taxonomies that ...
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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 |