| Description |
xv, 351 p. : ill. |
| Series |
New Americanists |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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New Americanists.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-336) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Democracy's graveyard: Ideology and Eternity / Bodies Politic / A Brief Note on (and against) Interdisciplinarity -- 1 Political Necrophilia. Freedom and the longing for dead citizenship. Thinking Against Freedom / Reading the Social Contract: The Fine Print / Give Me Liberty and Death / Killing Off Free Citizens, or The Logic of Political Necrophilia / Strategies of Antifreedom / Blacks and Jews -- 2 "The Slavery of Man to Himself": White male sexuality, self-reliance, and bondage. The Black Man / Self-Abuse or Self-Reliance? / Straight National Politics: Emerson, Sylvester Graham, and Republicanism / "I Recommended Castration": Managing Sexual Slaves / The Social Origins of the Solitary Vice / Taking Political Pleasure in White Men / Postscript -- 3 "That Half-Living Corpse": Female mediums, seances, and the occult public sphere. Fusing the Unconscious to National Pathology: Hawthorne and Habermas / Mesmerized Citizens and Spiritualist Politics / Ahistorical Performances of Utopia: Brook Farm and Blithedale / The Trance: Women's Privacy as the Performance of Citizenship / A Brief History of Girlhood / Veiled Labor / Zenobia's Corpse / Epitaph -- 4 The "Black Arts" of Citizenship: Africanist origins of white interiority. What about the Materiality of the Body? / Black Origins of the White Unconscious / Was Lincoln a Spiritualist? Emancipation and Clairvoyance / Ghostwriting / Douglass and the Antislavery Unconscious / Incidents in the (After)life of a Slave Girl / Histories of the Not There / Saying "Nothing" about History -- 5 De-Naturalizing Citizenship: Geographies Other Than the National / The Fourteenth Amendment and the Reduction of Subjectivity / "A French Grammar" and the Remainders of Diaspora / Privacy, Concubines, and Iola Leroy / Violence, Privacy, and the Supreme Court / Frances Harper and the Problem of Dual Citizenship / The Promise of the Counterpublic and the Return of Hierarchy / Miscegenation without Sex. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Death -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Citizenship -- United States -- History.
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Democracy -- United States -- History.
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Passivity (Psychology) -- United States -- History.
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Apathy -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780822380146 |
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0822380145 |
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0822327759 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780822327752 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0822327724 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822327721 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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