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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... structural boundaries of public life open onto ideological struggles over the political significance of the body itself. In making this claim, I draw and expand upon critiques of nineteenthcentury sentimentalism inspired by the debate ...
... structural underdevelopment of the body that positions “feeling” in a relation of exteriority to those public-sphere institutions within which “feelings” are contested and codified. As Donald Lowe has suggested, this underdevelopment ...
... structural opposition between political and social life. In later chapters, she reappears as part of a republican tradition due to her attention to the social (gender and class) inequalities hidden by that opposition. This example ...
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