Interior states institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States
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Interior states institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States
Author:
Castiglia, Christopher.
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Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.
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x, 366 p.
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New Americanists
New Americanists.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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.
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