LEADER 02902nam 22006734a 450 001 9910820845403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-9613-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000346732 035 $a(EBL)310695 035 $a(OCoLC)476095725 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000182147 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11179721 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182147 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10166830 035 $a(PQKB)10855562 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310695 035 $a(OCoLC)191935629 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse39310 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310695 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10151233 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL523088 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000346732 100 $a20040927d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIntimacy in America $edreams of affiliation in antebellum literature /$fPeter Coviello 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-4381-4 311 $a0-8166-4380-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 177-217) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : "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. 330 $aReading 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature 606 $aInterpersonal relations in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aInterpersonal relations in literature. 676 $a810.9/3553 686 $a18.06$2bcl 700 $aCoviello$b Peter$01664256 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820845403321 996 $aIntimacy in America$94022184 997 $aUNINA