LEADER 04862nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910780059503321 005 20230421041424.0 010 $a1-282-75352-5 010 $a9786612753527 010 $a1-4008-2269-6 010 $a1-4008-1114-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822690 035 $a(CKB)111056486500310 035 $a(EBL)617302 035 $a(OCoLC)705527041 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000244223 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208821 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244223 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10168411 035 $a(PQKB)11673017 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617302 035 $a(OCoLC)51444050 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36162 035 $a(DE-B1597)446273 035 $a(OCoLC)979905077 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822690 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617302 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10002104 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275352 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486500310 100 $a19980309d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSentimental bodies$b[electronic resource] $esex, gender, and citizenship in the early republic /$fBruce Burgett 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-01559-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-204) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction: Body Politics --$tPART ONE: SENTIMENT AND CITIZENSHIP --$t2. United States Liberalism and the Public Sphere --$t3. The Patriot's Two Bodies: Nationality and Corporeality in George Washington's ªFarewell Address --$tPART TWO: SENTIMENT AND SEX --$t4. Corresponding Sentiments and Republican Letters: Hannah Foster's The Coquette --$t5. Masochism and Male Sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard --$tPART THREE: SENTIMENT AND SEXUALITY --$t6. Obscene Publics: Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacobs --$t7. Afterword: Closeted Sentiments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aSentimentalism, 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aGender identity in literature 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aCitizenship in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y1783-1865 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aGender identity in literature. 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aCitizenship in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a810.9/358 700 $aBurgett$b Bruce$f1963-$01560517 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780059503321 996 $aSentimental bodies$93826548 997 $aUNINA