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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.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 366 p. ; 24 cm.

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)--History--United States--History--19th century.
Emotions--History--United States--History--19th century.
Affect (Psychology)--History--United States--History--19th century.
Emotions--History--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-362) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy -- "Matters of Internal Concern" : Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen -- Bad Associations : Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism -- Abolition's Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth -- Ardent Spirits : Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital -- Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State -- Between Consciousness and Revolution : Romanticism and Racial Interiority -- "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.

Series:

New Americanists

ISBN:

0822342677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822342670 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822342448 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822342441 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226361800

LCCN:

2008023165

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)