TY - BOOK AU - Coviello,Peter ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Intimacy in America: dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature AV - PS217.I52 C68 2005eb U1 - 810.9/3553 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Intimacy (Psychology) in literature KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Difference (Psychology) in literature KW - Interpersonal relations in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10151233 ER -