Castiglia / Pease Interior States

Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8924-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 378 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Explores changing forms of interiority as produced in relation to the state in nineteenth century America and the current day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castiglia, Christopher

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy 1

1. "Matters of Internal Concern": Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen 17

2. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism 60

3. Abolition's Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth 101

4. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital 136

5. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State 168

6. Between Consciousness and Revolution: Romanticism and Racial Interiority 216

7. "I Want My Happiness!": Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance 256

Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior Democracy 294

Notes 305

References 351

Index 363

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Castiglia is Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst and a co-editor of Walt Whitman’s temperance novel Franklin Evans; or, the Inebriate, also published by Duke University Press.