Interior states : institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States /
Castiglia, Christopher.
Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-362) and index.
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.
American literature
Politics and literature
Democracy in literature.
Self in literature.
Democracy
Democracy
Affect (Psychology)
Emotions
Affect (Psychology)
Emotions
Interior states.