Bruce Burgett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"A major and intellectually powerful effort to intervene in the liberal hermeneutics that has shaped past and recent studies of American literature, culture, politics, and history."--Betsy Erkkila, Early American Literature

• Acknowledgments1Introduction: Body Politics3Pt. 1Sentiment and Citizenship252United States Liberalism and the Public Sphere273The Patriot's Two Bodies: Nationality and Corporeality in George Washington's "Farewell Address"55Pt. 2Sentiment and Sex794Corresponding Sentiments and Republican Letters: Hannah Foster's The Coquette815Masochism and Male Sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard112Pt. 3Sentiment and Sexuality1356Obscene Publics: Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacobs1377Afterword: Closeted Sentiments155Notes161Index205

Bruce Burgett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"A major and intellectually powerful effort to intervene in the liberal hermeneutics that has shaped past and recent studies of American literature, culture, politics, and history."--Betsy Erkkila, Early American Literature

• Acknowledgments1Introduction: Body Politics3Pt. 1Sentiment and Citizenship252United States Liberalism and the Public Sphere273The Patriot's Two Bodies: Nationality and Corporeality in George Washington's "Farewell Address"55Pt. 2Sentiment and Sex794Corresponding Sentiments and Republican Letters: Hannah Foster's The Coquette815Masochism and Male Sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard112Pt. 3Sentiment and Sexuality1356Obscene Publics: Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacobs1377Afterword: Closeted Sentiments155Notes161Index205

Bruce Burgett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"A major and intellectually powerful effort to intervene in the liberal hermeneutics that has shaped past and recent studies of American literature, culture, politics, and history."--Betsy Erkkila, Early American Literature

• Acknowledgments1Introduction: Body Politics3Pt. 1Sentiment and Citizenship252United States Liberalism and the Public Sphere273The Patriot's Two Bodies: Nationality and Corporeality in George Washington's "Farewell Address"55Pt. 2Sentiment and Sex794Corresponding Sentiments and Republican Letters: Hannah Foster's The Coquette815Masochism and Male Sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard112Pt. 3Sentiment and Sexuality1356Obscene Publics: Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacobs1377Afterword: Closeted Sentiments155Notes161Index205