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Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coviello, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
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Table of 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.