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



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Autore: Castiglia Christopher Visualizza persona
Titolo: Interior states : institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States / / Christopher Castiglia Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/358
810.9358
Soggetto topico: 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Interior states  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-02286-9
9786613022868
0-8223-8924-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824904403321
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Serie: New Americanists. e-Duke books scholarly collection.