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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Castiglia Klappentext Explores changing forms of interiority as produced in relation to the state in nineteenth century America and the current day. Zusammenfassung Focuses on US citizens' democratic impulse: their ability to imagine and to work with others to create genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. This book contends that citizens of the early US were encouraged to locate this social impulse not in others but in the turbulent interiors of their own bodies. 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
