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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777990303321

Autore

Castiglia Christopher

Titolo

Interior states [[electronic resource] ] : institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States / / Christopher Castiglia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-02286-9

9786613022868

0-8223-8924-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

810.9/358

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Democracy in literature

Self in literature

Democracy - Psychological aspects

Democracy - Philosophy

Affect (Psychology) - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Emotions - Social aspects - History - 19th century

Affect (Psychology) - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Emotions - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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