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Interior states : institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castiglia, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.
Colección:New Americanists.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy
  • 1. "Matters of Internal Concern": Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen
  • 2. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism
  • 3. Abolition's Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth
  • 4. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital
  • 5. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State
  • 6. Between Consciousness and Revolution: Romanticism and Racial Interiority
  • 7. "I Want My Happiness!" Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance
  • Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior Democracy.