Intimacy in America
Subtitle: dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature
By: Peter Coviello.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "What is it then between us?"; title: Intimate property : race and the civics of self-relation; title: The melancholy of little girls : Poe, pedophilia, and the logic of slavery; title: Bowels and fear : nationalism, sodomy, and whiteness in Moby-Dick; title: Loving strangers : intimacy and nationality in Whitman; title: Epilogue : nation mourns notes.