Intimacy in America [[electronic resource] ] : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / / Peter Coviello

• Autore: Coviello Peter
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/3553
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Interpersonal relations in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 18.06
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Intimacy in America
• ISBN: 0-8166-9613-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451647503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II