Sentimental Bodies : : Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic /

Sentimental Bodies : : Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic / / Bruce Burgett.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Burgett, Bruce,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998]
©1999
Año de Publicación:1998
Edición:Core Textbook
Lenguaje:English
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Descripción Física:1 online resource (217 p.)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Body Politics
  • PART ONE: SENTIMENT AND CITIZENSHIP
  • 2. United States Liberalism and the Public Sphere
  • 3. The Patriot's Two Bodies: Nationality and Corporeality in George Washington's ªFarewell Address
  • PART TWO: SENTIMENT AND SEX
  • 4. Corresponding Sentiments and Republican Letters: Hannah Foster's The Coquette
  • 5. Masochism and Male Sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard
  • PART THREE: SENTIMENT AND SEXUALITY
  • 6. Obscene Publics: Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacobs
  • 7. Afterword: Closeted Sentiments
  • Notes
  • Index

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