Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature

Publication Data

• Title Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature
• Author Peter Coviello
• Publisher University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Minneapolis, Minn.
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• American literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Intimacy (Psychology) in literature
• National characteristics, American, in literature
• Difference (Psychology) in literature
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Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature by Peter Coviello. ISBN 0816643814. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.