Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (New Americanists)
by Russ Castronovo
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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.Tags
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Russ Castronovo is Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Sociology, History, General Nonfiction
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- 306.9 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Institutions pertaining to death
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- HQ1073.5 .U6 .C37 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Thanatology. Death. Dying
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