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Necro Citizenship : Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States /

Argues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Castronovo, Russ, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Argues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens.
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822380146