Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Author/Contributor(s):	Castronovo, Russ
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	09/27/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.