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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Castiglia, Christopher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gesellschaft
Demokratie
Innenwelt
Literatur
Self in literature.
Politics and literature.
Emotions > Social aspects.
Emotions > Political aspects.
Democracy > Psychological aspects.
Democracy > Philosophy.
Democracy in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Politique et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Emotions > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Affect (Psychology) > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Emotions > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
Affect (Psychology) > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
USA
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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