LEADER 04415nam 22007214a 450 001 9910821127003321 005 20080321103954.0 010 $a1-283-06173-2 010 $a9786613061737 010 $a0-8223-8014-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822380146 035 $a(CKB)111056486755950 035 $a(EBL)1167512 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000209051 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11189329 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209051 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10262376 035 $a(PQKB)11704043 035 $a(OCoLC)191855700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1167512 035 $a(OCoLC)1141662583 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80378 035 $a191855700 035 $a(DE-B1597)553609 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822380146 035 $a(OCoLC)1226679732 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486755950 100 $a20080206d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNecro citizenship $edeath, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States /$fRuss Castronovo 210 $aDurham $cDuke University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8223-2772-4 311 $a0-8223-2775-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-336) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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, se?ances, 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. 330 $aArgues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aDeath$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCitizenship$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aDemocracy$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPassivity (Psychology)$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aApathy$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aDeath$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aCitizenship$xHistory. 615 0$aDemocracy$xHistory. 615 0$aPassivity (Psychology)$xHistory. 615 0$aApathy$xHistory. 676 $a306.9/0973 676 $a306.90973 700 $aCastronovo$b Russ$f1965-$01127014 801 0$bNcD 801 1$bNcD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821127003321 996 $aNecro citizenship$94016116 997 $aUNINA