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4. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction. Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy 1
- 1. ‘‘Matters of Internal Concern’’: Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen 17
- 2. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism 60
- 3. Abolition’s Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth 101
- 4. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital 136
- 5. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State 168
- 6. Between Consciousness and Revolution: Romanticism and Racial Interiority 216
- 7. ‘‘I Want My Happiness!’’ Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance 256
- Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior Democracy 294
- Notes 305
- References 351
- Index 363
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction. Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy 1
- 1. ‘‘Matters of Internal Concern’’: Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen 17
- 2. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism 60
- 3. Abolition’s Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth 101
- 4. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital 136
- 5. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State 168
- 6. Between Consciousness and Revolution: Romanticism and Racial Interiority 216
- 7. ‘‘I Want My Happiness!’’ Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance 256
- Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior Democracy 294
- Notes 305
- References 351
- Index 363
