{"product_id":"necro-citizenship-death-eroticism-and-the-public-sphere-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states-9780822327721","title":"Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States","description":"In \u003ci\u003eNecro Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e 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 ones, amnesia over history, and passivity over engagement.\u003cbr\u003eMoving from medical engravings, s ances, and clairvoyant communication to Supreme Court decisions, popular literature, and physiological tracts, \u003ci\u003eNecro Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e explores how rituals of inclusion and belonging have generated alienation and dispossession. Castronovo contends that citizenship does violence to bodies, especially those of blacks, women, and workers. \"Necro ideology,\" he argues, supplied citizens with the means to think about slavery, economic powerlessness, or social injustice as eternal questions, beyond the scope of politics or critique. By obsessing on sleepwalkers, drowned women, and other corpses, necro ideology fostered a collective demand for an abstract even antidemocratic sense of freedom. Examining issues involving the occult, white sexuality, ghosts, and suicide in conjunction with readings of Harriet Jacobs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Frances Harper, \u003ci\u003eNecro Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e successfully demonstrates why Patrick Henry's \"give me liberty or give me death\" has resonated so strongly in the American imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Russ Castronovo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.22w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822327721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuss Castronovo is Associate Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Miami. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198559826035,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6a786c0d-3632-4b3d-be85-e0eac2fbb242.jpg?v=1656078747","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/necro-citizenship-death-eroticism-and-the-public-sphere-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states-9780822327721","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}