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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... virtues of one sex without having power to assume more than the vices of the other. A number of men followed them, armed with pikes, bludgeons, and hatchets: but they were strictly speaking a mob, affixing all the odium to the ...
... virtue” to John Adams's classical use of that term in order to justify a premodern and hierarchical politics of social deference. In contrast, J. G. A. Pocock's The Machiavellian Moment (1975) focused on the continued and continuing ...
... virtue and corruption upon the text of the republic; second, it opens that struggle onto questions concerning the infrastructure of democratic citizenship. Among the studies of the early republic influenced by Pocock are some of the ...
... virtue, for example, was often understood in precisely these terms. But it also forces him to encode all contemporary discourses focused on the political significance of the body as categorically liberal. The dialectic within ...
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