Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebellum Novel Dill Elizabeth
Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebellum Novel Dill Elizabeth What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Elizabeth Dill argues that the era's proliferation of…
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Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebellum Novel Dill Elizabeth
What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Elizabeth Dill argues that the era's proliferation of texts about extramarital erotic intimacy manifests not an anxiety about the dangers of unfettered feeling but an endorsement of it. Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America's early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings.
Uncovering the more prurient aspects of nation-building, Erotic Citizens establishes the narrative of sexual ruin as a genre whose sustained rejection of marriage acted as a critique of that which traditionally defines a democracy: the social contract and the sovereign individual.Through an examination of philosophical tracts, political cartoons, frontispiece illustrations, portraiture, and the novel from the antebellum period, this study reconsiders how the terms of embodiment and selfhood
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