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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... readers at Princeton University Press—provided crucial support and helpful suggestions, as did my editor, Deborah Malmud. Special thanks also to four of my favorite nonacademics, all of whom responded (and continue to respond) to my ...
... readers' affective, passionate, and embodied responses to fictive characters and situations in order to produce political effects. As such, sentimentalism located readers' bodies as both pre-political sources of personal authenticity ...
... more vigilant application of democratic and republican principles.4 By focusing on the “excrementious humors” of the Revolution, Wollstonecraft's “philosophical eye” penetrates the body politic, assuring her reader that “reason 4 CHAPTER 1.
... reader that “reason beaming on the theater of political changes, can prove the only sure guide to direct us to a favorable or just conclusion.” “It is,” she adds, “the uncontaminated mass of the French nation, whose minds begin to grasp ...
... readers of—the American Revolution represent, applaud, and eventually other that revolution as passionless and purely political; their polemics are concerned more specifically with the French Revolution and the problematic expansion of ...
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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 |