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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... understandings of the body and its sensations are deployed and contested. By highlighting the structural basis of this contradiction, Sentimental Bodies situates literary critical debates concerning the political history of ...
... understanding of the body as both a ground and a site of political debate. In different ways, the focus on the body common to Wollstonecraft and Marx results from the political and cultural pressures placed upon a republican body ...
... understanding of democracy consequently differs from socialist theories, which tend toward totalitarianism when they attempt to close the gap between political and social relations. It also contrasts with liberal theories, which tend ...
... understandings of hegemony as a political strategy ultimately grounded in the sociological reality of class antagonism ... understanding of those movements; third, it provides an anti-essentialist critique of modern identity-based ...
... understanding of the body to the materialist and sensationalist psychology of writers ranging from John Locke and Julian La Mettrie to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.51 While there are significant differences among these schools ...
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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 |