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Keywords for American cultural studies
\"Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to evolve, this revised and expanded second edition offers indispensable meditations on new and developing concepts used in American studies, cultural studies, and beyond. It is equally useful for college students who are trying to understand what their teachers are talking about, for general readers who want to know what's new in scholarly research, and for professors who just want to keep up. Designed as a print-digital hybrid publication, Keywords collects more than 90 essays--30 of which are new to this edition--from interdisciplinary scholars, each on a single term such as \"America,\" \"culture,\" \"law,\" and \"religion.\" Alongside \"community,\" \"prison,\" \"queer,\" \"region,\" and many others, these words are the nodal points in many of today's most dynamic and vexed discussions of political and social life, both inside and outside of the academy. The Keywords website, which features 33 essays, provides pedagogical tools that engage the entirety of the book, both in print and online. The publication brings together essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory. Some entries are explicitly argumentative; others are more descriptive. All are clear, challenging, and critically engaged. As a whole, Keywords for American Cultural Studies provides an accessible A to Z survey of prevailing academic buzzwords and a flexible tool for carving out new areas of inquiry. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sentimental Bodies
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'sThe Coquetteand Harriet Jacobs'sIncidents 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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On the Mormon Question: Race, Sex, and Polygamy in the 1850s and the 1990s
Burgett cites two reasons for recalling a largely forgotten association between the antislavery and antipolygamy movements. The first is a political concern with the invocation of antipolygamy discourse--and its racializing intertexts--by both opponents and proponents of same-sex marriage during the last decade. The second is a historical concern with the ways in which discourses of sex and race are produced and reproduced through the conjuncture in the mid-nineteenth century of the deployment of monogamous conjugal norms on the one hand, and the imperial consolidation of the nation-state on the other.
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Forum: Reconsidering early American sexuality: In the name of sex
In a reconsideration of early American sexuality, Burgett wonders when and why does the modern category of the sexual get isolated from (or in) the early modern category of the sensual. The history of sexuality has moved from a field based primarily in the project of textual recovery and organized largely around identity categories to one grounded in an analytics of power.
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Between Speculation and Population: The Problem of \Sex\ in Our Long Eighteenth Century
Burgett argues that the second half of the nineteenth century saw an intensification of scientifically grounded sexual taxonomies, and that these taxonomies were increasingly understood as descriptive not only of licit and illicit acts, but also of licit and illicit desires.
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