Sentimental bodies :sex, gender, and citizenship in the early republic
- 作者: Burgett, Bruce,
- 出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1998.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (213 pages).
- 標題: American literature. , American literature , Electronic books. , Politics and literature. , Politique et littérature États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. , Gender identity in literature. , American literature 1783-1850 -- History and criticism. , Politics and literature United States -- History -- 18th century. , Vie intellectuelle , 1700-1899 , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , États-Unis Vie intellectuelle -- 1783-1865. , Littérature américaine , Politics and literature United States -- History -- 19th century. , History and criticism. , Identité sexuelle dans la littérature. , Politics and literature , Corps humain dans la littérature. , Sentimentalism in literature. , United States , Citizenship in literature. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Intellectual life. , Histoire et critique. , Human body in literature. , Sex role in literature. , Politique et littérature États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle. , History , Littérature américaine 1783-1850 -- Histoire et critique. , États-Unis , AmericanGeneral. , Intellectual life , Histoire , Politique et littérature , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , United States. , Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature. , United States Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
- ISBN: 0691015597 , 9780691015590
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-204) and index. 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.
- 摘要: 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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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. Drawing on texts ranging from George Washington's "Farewell Address" and Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard to Hannah Foster's The Coquette and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Burgett shows that the sentimental literary culture of the period relied on readers' affective, passionate, and embodied responses to fictive characters and situations in order to produce political effects. As such, sentimentalism located readers' bodies both as prepolitical sources of personal authenticity and as public sites of political contestation. Going beyond an account of the public sphere as a realm to which only some have full access, Burgett reveals that the formation of the body and sexual subjectivity is crucial to the very construction of that sphere. By exploring and destabilizing the longstanding distinction between public and private life, this book raises questions central to any democratic political culture.
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