Interior states : institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States / / Christopher Castiglia.
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| Superior document: | New Americanists |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Americanists.
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| Physical Description: | x, 366 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.