Christopher Castiglia is Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst and a co-editor of Walt Whitman’s temperance novel Franklin Evans; or, the Inebriate, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy 11. "Matters of Internal Concern": Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen 172. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism 603. Abolition's Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth 1014. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital 1365. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State 1686. Between Consciousness and Revolution: Romanticism and Racial Interiority 2167. "I Want My Happiness!": Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance 256Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior Democracy 294Notes 305References 351Index 363

“Interior States rethinks the relation of identity and democracy in a dazzling exercise of literary criticism, social history, and political theory. Christopher Castiglia shows how the federal practice of democracy, in combination with developing institutions, did not squash so much as misplace democracy, relocating its performance from the sociality of exchange between citizens into the personal, bodily interior. Our nervous management of our own discordant identities sidetracks us from a richer, more inventively dissensual democratic practice. Castiglia explores a rich, interdisciplinary nineteenth-century archive that imagines alternative democracies and challenges readers to unfetter their imaginations in the service of more pleasurable, ‘post-interior’ democratic association.”-Dana D. Nelson, co-editor of Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics “This book combines scope and depth in a way that will remind readers of some of the classics-F. O. Matthiessen, Leo Marx, Ann Douglas, Jane Tompkins. In a book propelled by wonderful writing, Christopher Castiglia illuminates the extent to which the self-declared greatest democracy of world history has struggled to be democratic institutionally. His call for a ‘post-interior humanism’ gains real urgency from an account of a centuries-old impasse in American life that readers will remember long after they have finished the book.”-Christopher Newfield, author of The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

Christopher Castiglia is Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst and a co-editor of Walt Whitman’s temperance novel Franklin Evans; or, the Inebriate, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy 11. "Matters of Internal Concern": Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen 172. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism 603. Abolition's Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth 1014. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital 1365. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State 1686. Between Consciousness and Revolution: Romanticism and Racial Interiority 2167. "I Want My Happiness!": Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance 256Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior Democracy 294Notes 305References 351Index 363

“Interior States rethinks the relation of identity and democracy in a dazzling exercise of literary criticism, social history, and political theory. Christopher Castiglia shows how the federal practice of democracy, in combination with developing institutions, did not squash so much as misplace democracy, relocating its performance from the sociality of exchange between citizens into the personal, bodily interior. Our nervous management of our own discordant identities sidetracks us from a richer, more inventively dissensual democratic practice. Castiglia explores a rich, interdisciplinary nineteenth-century archive that imagines alternative democracies and challenges readers to unfetter their imaginations in the service of more pleasurable, ‘post-interior’ democratic association.”-Dana D. Nelson, co-editor of Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics “This book combines scope and depth in a way that will remind readers of some of the classics-F. O. Matthiessen, Leo Marx, Ann Douglas, Jane Tompkins. In a book propelled by wonderful writing, Christopher Castiglia illuminates the extent to which the self-declared greatest democracy of world history has struggled to be democratic institutionally. His call for a ‘post-interior humanism’ gains real urgency from an account of a centuries-old impasse in American life that readers will remember long after they have finished the book.”-Christopher Newfield, author of The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

Christopher Castiglia is Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst and a co-editor of Walt Whitman’s temperance novel Franklin Evans; or, the Inebriate, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy 11. "Matters of Internal Concern": Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen 172. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism 603. Abolition's Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth 1014. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital 1365. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State 1686. Between Consciousness and Revolution: Romanticism and Racial Interiority 2167. "I Want My Happiness!": Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance 256Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior Democracy 294Notes 305References 351Index 363

“Interior States rethinks the relation of identity and democracy in a dazzling exercise of literary criticism, social history, and political theory. Christopher Castiglia shows how the federal practice of democracy, in combination with developing institutions, did not squash so much as misplace democracy, relocating its performance from the sociality of exchange between citizens into the personal, bodily interior. Our nervous management of our own discordant identities sidetracks us from a richer, more inventively dissensual democratic practice. Castiglia explores a rich, interdisciplinary nineteenth-century archive that imagines alternative democracies and challenges readers to unfetter their imaginations in the service of more pleasurable, ‘post-interior’ democratic association.”-Dana D. Nelson, co-editor of Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics “This book combines scope and depth in a way that will remind readers of some of the classics-F. O. Matthiessen, Leo Marx, Ann Douglas, Jane Tompkins. In a book propelled by wonderful writing, Christopher Castiglia illuminates the extent to which the self-declared greatest democracy of world history has struggled to be democratic institutionally. His call for a ‘post-interior humanism’ gains real urgency from an account of a centuries-old impasse in American life that readers will remember long after they have finished the book.”-Christopher Newfield, author of The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America