Necro citizenship : death, eroticism, and the public sphere in the nineteenth-century United States / Russ Castronovo.

Argues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens.

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Main Author: Castronovo, Russ, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:New Americanists.
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Summary:Argues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 351 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-336) and index.
ISBN:0822380145
9780822380146
1283061732
9781283061735
9786613061737
6613061735
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
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