Coviello, Peter.

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. :
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2009.
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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.


Electronic books.

PS217.I52 / C68 2005eb

810.9/3553