Intimacy in America [electronic resource] : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / Peter Coviello.
Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.Description: xii, 229 p. ; 23 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 810.9/3553 22
- PS217.I52 C68 2005eb
- 18.06
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.
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