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Author Castiglia, Christopher

Title Interior states : institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States / Christopher Castiglia
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 366 pages)
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
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
Summary Explores changing forms of interiority as produced in relation to the state in nineteenth century America and the current day
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
American literature
Democracy in literature
Democracy -- Philosophy
Democracy -- Psychological aspects
Emotions -- Political aspects
Emotions -- Social aspects
Politics and literature
Self in literature
Literatur
Innenwelt
Demokratie
Gesellschaft
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 -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Affect (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Emotions -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822389248
082238924X
1283022869
9781283022866
9786613022868
6613022861
0822342448
9780822342441