Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature

by Peter Coviello

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816643814
• ISBN13: 9780816643813
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.0"