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Intimacy In America Dreams Of Affiliation In Antebellum Literature 1st Edition Peter Coviello

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Intimacy In America Dreams Of Affiliation In Antebellum Literature 1st Edition Peter Coviello
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Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 1.52 MB
Pages: 243
Author: Peter Coviello
ISBN: 0816643806
Language: English
Year: 2005
Edition: 1

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Intimacy In America Dreams Of Affiliation In Antebellum Literature 1st Edition Peter Coviello by Peter Coviello 0816643806 instant download after payment.

Nineteenth-century America was a sprawling new nation unmoored from precedent and the mainstays of European nationalism. In their search for nationality, Americans sought coherence in a feeling of belonging shared among diverse and scattered strangers. Reading seminal works by Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman, Peter Coviello traces these writers' enthusiasms and their ambivalences about the dream of an intimate nationality, revealing how race and sexuality were used as vehicles for an assumed national coherence. As Coviello shows, race - and especially whiteness - functioned less as a form of identity than as a model of attachment and identification, a language of affiliation. Whiteness created an imaginary fraternity that symbolized citizenship, the ownership of property, and an affinity between strangers, which became entangled in the nation's evolving codes of sexuality. Bringing race theory and "white studies" into dialogue with questions of intimacy and affect, Coviello provides a practical rapprochement between historicist and psychoanalytic methodologies. Intimacy in America gives us a new perspective on the national meanings of race and sex in American literature, as well as on the still-current dream of American-ness as an impassioned relation to far-flung, anonymous others.

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