5. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State

Chapters in this book

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