Intimacy in America [electronic resource] : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / Peter Coviello.
By: Coviello, Peter.
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Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005Description: xii, 229 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Intimacy (Psychology) in literature | National characteristics, American, in literature | Difference (Psychology) in literature | Interpersonal relations in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/3553 Other classification: 18.06 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 810.9/355 Mixing race, mixing culture | 810.9/3552 To be suddenly white | 810.9/3552 Democratic discourses | 810.9/3553 Intimacy in America | 810.9/3556 Unnatural selections | 810.9/3556 Against the gallows | 810.9/3561082 Encarnación |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-217) and index.
Introduction : "What is it then between us?" -- Intimate property : race and the civics of self-relation -- The melancholy of little girls : Poe, pedophilia, and the logic of slavery -- Bowels and fear : nationalism, sodomy, and whiteness in Moby-Dick -- Loving strangers : intimacy and nationality in Whitman -- Epilogue : nation mourns.
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