Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States

by Christopher Castiglia

Book Overview

In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens' democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. Castiglia contends that citizens of the early United States were encouraged to locate this social impulse not in associations with others but in the turbulent and conflicted interiors of their own bodies. He describes how the human interior-with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342677
• ISBN13: 9780822342670
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"