Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature /
Coviello, Peter.
Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press,
c2005.
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.
American literature
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.