Sentimental bodies : sex, gender, and citizenship in the early republic / Bruce Burgett.

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Burgett, Bruce, 1963-

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text

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computer

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online resource

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1400811147
9781400811144
9780691015590
0691015597

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sentimental bodies.DDC classification:

810.9/358 21

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PS217.P64 B87 1998eb

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Contents:

United States liberalism and the public sphere -- The patriot's two bodies: nationality and corporeality in George Washington's "Farewell Address" -- Corresponding sentiments and republican letters: Hannah Foster's The Coquette -- Masochism and male sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard -- Obscene publics: Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacob -- Afterword: closeted sentiments.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-204) and index.

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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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