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

Russ Castronovo, Dorothy Draheim Professor of English Russ Castronovo — 2001

DIVArgues 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./div