Intimacy in America dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / [electronic resource] :
Peter Coviello.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- xii, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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American literature--History and criticism.--19th century Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Interpersonal relations in literature.