Intimacy in America : Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature /

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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. Int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coviello, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Verwantschap.
Amerikaans.
Letterkunde.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
American literature.
Difference (Philosophy) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Relations humaines dans la litterature.
Psychologie differentielle dans la litterature.
Americains dans la litterature.
Intimite dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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