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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Coviello, Peter
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (242 pages).
ISBN:9780816696130

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