Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States

by Russ Castronovo

Book Overview

In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to-and even dependent on-death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized death as a crucial point of political identification. This morbid politics idealized disembodiment over embodiment, spiritual conditions over material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822327724
• ISBN13: 9780822327721
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"