Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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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. Intimacy in America gives us a new perspective on the dream of Americanness as a relation to anonymous others.
JSTOR
22573/cttbpsh6
Intimacy in America.
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Américains dans la littérature.
Intimité dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Psychologie différentielle dans la littérature.
Relations humaines dans la littérature.
American literature.
Amerikaans.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Letterkunde.
LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
National characteristics, American, in literature.