03678nam 22008294a 450 991077799030332120090217040810.01-283-02286-997866130228680-8223-8924-X10.1515/9780822389248(CKB)1000000000757477(EBL)1169883(OCoLC)308707582(SSID)ssj0000390610(PQKBManifestationID)12133852(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000390610(PQKBWorkID)10451197(PQKB)10242532308707582(MiAaPQ)EBC1169883(OCoLC)1139402543(MdBmJHUP)muse79031(DE-B1597)553853(DE-B1597)9780822389248(OCoLC)1170630955(EXLCZ)99100000000075747720090217d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInterior states[electronic resource] institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States /Christopher CastigliaDurham, NC Duke University Press20081 online resource (380 p.)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-4267-7 0-8223-4244-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Explores changing forms of interiority as produced in relation to the state in nineteenth century America and the current day.New Americanists.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryDemocracy in literatureSelf in literatureDemocracyPsychological aspectsDemocracyPhilosophyAffect (Psychology)Social aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryEmotionsSocial aspectsHistory19th centuryAffect (Psychology)Political aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryEmotionsPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryDemocracy in literature.Self in literature.DemocracyPsychological aspects.DemocracyPhilosophy.Affect (Psychology)Social aspectsHistoryEmotionsSocial aspectsHistoryAffect (Psychology)Political aspectsHistoryEmotionsPolitical aspectsHistory810.9/358Castiglia Christopher595300NcDNcDBOOK9910777990303321Interior states3815331UNINA