Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early RepublicPrinceton University Press, 5 Okt 1998 - 217 halaman Sentimentalism, 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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... sensations were expressed for a public that could imagine itself as respecting the autonomy of every body, and it provided a literary site for the management of those sensations through collective and potentially heteronomous means ...
... sensations are deployed and contested. By highlighting the structural basis of this contradiction, Sentimental Bodies situates literary critical debates concerning the political history of sentimentalism within political theoretical ...
... sensations, and its relations. Temperance and anti-onanism campaigns, as well as opposition to corporal punishment in state institutions ranging from schools and prisons to the military, all deploy the rhetoric of sentimentalism in ...
... sensations. The culture of sentiment thematizes this contradiction within both the body and the body politic by opposing what Barker-Benfield refers to as the autonomy of the individual's “spontaneous wish” to the heteronomous “code of ...
... sensations of the body—by both conjuring and exorcising the “excrementious humors” of the bowels. Even the most radical of nineteenth-century body politics operate on this sentimental terrain. In Song of Myself, for example, Walt ...
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