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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... sense? Its role has been steadily diminished, so that it seems little more than a ghostly shadow seen on the x-ray plate of our moral disapproval. We are now entering a colonialist phase in our attitudes to the body, full of ...
... sense as a name for the ideological struggle over public opinion formation (what Antonio Gramsci refers to as the “war of position”), “politics” expands to include virtually all forms of sociality, including intimate and corporeal ...
... senses outlined above.24 The first of these implications is ideological and has been usefully explored in the writings of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, most notably in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Accepting Lefort's description ...
... sense, these are the debates in which Sentimental Bodies participates. And Warner again provides a useful context. While the principle of self-abstraction that Warner locates at the center of republicanism suggests that the body appears ...
... sense of conflict appears within sentimentalism as a tension between “feeling” and “code” in the sentimental body: “The tension between feeling and code was intended to sharpen the emotional effect on the sensitive reader who ...
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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 |