{"product_id":"the-gender-of-freedom-9780804729413","title":"The Gender of Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism-and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through an impressive synthesis of critical material from a wide range of disciplines and some astute readings of political theorists from Adam Smith to Jürgen Habermas, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon has produced an intriguing and largely persuasive account of the relationship between liberalism and gender difference.\" -- \u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this highly intelligent and elegantly written book, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon makes the important observation that U.S. liberalism depends upon the concept of gender for its successful functioning and, more particularly, that women's private status has been integral to liberalism since its inception.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLegacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public\t1  Chapter One. Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere\t00  Chapter Two. Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts\t00  Chapter Three. Contracting Marriage in the New Republic\t000  Chapter Four. Sociality and Sentiment\t000  Coda. Queering Marriage: Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title\t000  Notes  Works Cited\t000  Index        Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: American literature Colonial period, ca,  1600-1775 History and criticism, Liberty in literature, Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 Criticism and interpretation, American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism, Politics and literature United States History, Women and literature United States History, Sentimentalism in literature, Liberalism in literature, Sex role in literature, Marriage in literature, Women in literature","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405514776919,"sku":"9780804729413","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804729413.jpg?v=1730492474","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-gender-of-freedom-9780804729413","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}