02938nam 22006734a 450 991045164750332120200520144314.00-8166-9613-6(CKB)1000000000346732(EBL)310695(OCoLC)476095725(SSID)ssj0000182147(PQKBManifestationID)11179721(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182147(PQKBWorkID)10166830(PQKB)10855562(MiAaPQ)EBC310695(OCoLC)191935629(MdBmJHUP)muse39310(Au-PeEL)EBL310695(CaPaEBR)ebr10151233(CaONFJC)MIL523088(EXLCZ)99100000000034673220040927d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIntimacy in America[electronic resource] dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature /Peter CovielloMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20051 online resource (243 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4381-4 0-8166-4380-6 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.Reading seminal works by Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman, Peter Coviello traces these writers' ambivalences about the idea of an intimate nationality, revealing how race and sexuality were used as vehicles for an assumed coherence. Intimacy in America gives us a new perspective on the dream of Americanness as a relation to anonymous others.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismIntimacy (Psychology) in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureDifference (Psychology) in literatureInterpersonal relations in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.Difference (Psychology) in literature.Interpersonal relations in literature.810.9/355318.06bclCoviello Peter936519MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451647503321Intimacy in America2109582UNINA