04415nam 22007214a 450 991082112700332120080321103954.01-283-06173-297866130617370-8223-8014-510.1515/9780822380146(CKB)111056486755950(EBL)1167512(SSID)ssj0000209051(PQKBManifestationID)11189329(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209051(PQKBWorkID)10262376(PQKB)11704043(OCoLC)191855700(MiAaPQ)EBC1167512(OCoLC)1141662583(MdBmJHUP)muse80378191855700(DE-B1597)553609(DE-B1597)9780822380146(OCoLC)1226679732(EXLCZ)9911105648675595020080206d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNecro citizenship death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States /Russ CastronovoDurham Duke University Press20011 online resource (369 p.)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-2772-4 0-8223-2775-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-336) and index.Introduction: Democracy's graveyard: Ideology and Eternity / Bodies Politic / A Brief Note on (and against) Interdisciplinarity -- 1 Political Necrophilia. Freedom and the longing for dead citizenship. Thinking Against Freedom / Reading the Social Contract: The Fine Print / Give Me Liberty and Death / Killing Off Free Citizens, or The Logic of Political Necrophilia / Strategies of Antifreedom / Blacks and Jews -- 2 "The Slavery of Man to Himself": White male sexuality, self-reliance, and bondage. The Black Man / Self-Abuse or Self-Reliance? / Straight National Politics: Emerson, Sylvester Graham, and Republicanism / "I Recommended Castration": Managing Sexual Slaves / The Social Origins of the Solitary Vice / Taking Political Pleasure in White Men / Postscript -- 3 "That Half-Living Corpse": Female mediums, séances, and the occult public sphere. Fusing the Unconscious to National Pathology: Hawthorne and Habermas / Mesmerized Citizens and Spiritualist Politics / Ahistorical Performances of Utopia: Brook Farm and Blithedale / The Trance: Women's Privacy as the Performance of Citizenship / A Brief History of Girlhood / Veiled Labor / Zenobia's Corpse / Epitaph -- 4 The "Black Arts" of Citizenship: Africanist origins of white interiority. What about the Materiality of the Body? / Black Origins of the White Unconscious / Was Lincoln a Spiritualist? Emancipation and Clairvoyance / Ghostwriting / Douglass and the Antislavery Unconscious / Incidents in the (After)life of a Slave Girl / Histories of the Not There / Saying "Nothing" about History -- 5 De-Naturalizing Citizenship: Geographies Other Than the National / The Fourteenth Amendment and the Reduction of Subjectivity / "A French Grammar" and the Remainders of Diaspora / Privacy, Concubines, and Iola Leroy / Violence, Privacy, and the Supreme Court / Frances Harper and the Problem of Dual Citizenship / The Promise of the Counterpublic and the Return of Hierarchy / Miscegenation without Sex.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.New Americanists.DeathPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryCitizenshipUnited StatesHistoryDemocracyUnited StatesHistoryPassivity (Psychology)United StatesHistoryApathyUnited StatesHistoryDeathPolitical aspectsHistory.CitizenshipHistory.DemocracyHistory.Passivity (Psychology)History.ApathyHistory.306.9/0973306.90973Castronovo Russ1965-1127014NcDNcDBOOK9910821127003321Necro citizenship4016116UNINA