Christopher Castiglia

Interior States

Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores changing forms of interiority as produced in relation to the state in nineteenth century America and the current day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342670
• ISBN-10: 0822342677
• Artikelnr.: 23911442

Autorenporträt

Christopher Castiglia

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy 1
1. "Matters of Internal Concern": Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen
17
2. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism 60
3. Abolition's Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth 101
4. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital 136
5. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State 168
6. Between Consciousness and Revolution: Romanticism and Racial Interiority
216
7. "I Want My Happiness!": Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the
Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance 256
Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior
Democracy 294
Notes 305
References 351
Index 363