The Heart of Civilization

• 영문명: The Heart of Civilization
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: Bruce Burgett
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제10집, 57~80쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.06.01

영문 초록

  This article surveys, argues for, and advances the recent postnationalist turn in American Studies scholarship by focusing on the emergence and persistence of the Anglo-American discourse of sentimental imperialism. Drawing specifically on the writings of Lord Shaftesbury (Sensus Communis) and Lydia Maria Child (Hobomok), the article suggests that the long history of Anglo-American sentimentalism needs to be understood in relation both to the rise of liberal strategies of governmentality in the late seventeenth century and to the increased focus on the body and its sensations as a ground for political debate in the early eighteenth century. Sentimental imperialism, in this context, roots the abstract universalism of Anglo-American liberalism in the particularities of local practices of embodiment. In turn, these specific articulations of liberalism"s (globalizing) claims and its (localizing) procedures underwrite the theory and practice of Anglo-American imperialism. The article also suggests that scholars and critics of post-nationalist American Studies should be interested not simply in how this form of sentimental imperialism operates, but also in mapping some of its less predictable effects and genealogies.

목차

Ⅰ. Globalizing American Studies
Ⅱ. The History of the Culture of Sentiment
Ⅲ. The Theory of the Culture of Moral Sentiment
Ⅳ. Nothing
Works Cited
Abstract

키워드

Sentimental imperialism Post-nationalism Shaftesbury Lydia Maria Child Globalization