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Necro citizenship [[electronic resource] ] : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States / / Russ Castronovo
| Necro citizenship [[electronic resource] ] : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States / / Russ Castronovo |
| Autore | Castronovo Russ <1965-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.9/0973 |
| Collana | New Americanists |
| Soggetto topico |
Death - Political aspects - United States - History
Citizenship - United States - History Democracy - United States - History Passivity (Psychology) - United States - History Apathy - United States - History |
| ISBN |
1-283-06173-2
9786613061737 0-8223-8014-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780024803321 |
Castronovo Russ <1965->
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| Durham, : Duke University Press, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Necro citizenship : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States / / Russ Castronovo
| Necro citizenship : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States / / Russ Castronovo |
| Autore | Castronovo Russ <1965-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina |
306.9/0973
306.90973 |
| Collana | New Americanists |
| Soggetto topico |
Death - Political aspects - United States - History
Citizenship - United States - History Democracy - United States - History Passivity (Psychology) - United States - History Apathy - United States - History |
| ISBN |
1-283-06173-2
9786613061737 0-8223-8014-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821127003321 |
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Castronovo Russ <1965->
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| Durham, : Duke University Press, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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