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Offers a major rereading of the antebellum literary canon.

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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "What Is It Then Between Us?" 1. Intimate Property: Race and the Civics of Self-Relation 2. The Melancholy of Little Girls: Poe, Pedophilia, and the Logic of Slavery 3. Bowels and Fear: Nationalism, Sodomy, and Whiteness in Moby-Dick 4. Loving Strangers: Intimacy and Nationality in Whitman Epilogue: NATION MOURNS NotesIndex

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/04/2005
      ISBN13: 9780816643813, 978-0816643813
      ISBN10: 0816643814

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a major rereading of the antebellum literary canon.

      Table of Contents
      Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "What Is It Then Between Us?" 1. Intimate Property: Race and the Civics of Self-Relation 2. The Melancholy of Little Girls: Poe, Pedophilia, and the Logic of Slavery 3. Bowels and Fear: Nationalism, Sodomy, and Whiteness in Moby-Dick 4. Loving Strangers: Intimacy and Nationality in Whitman Epilogue: NATION MOURNS NotesIndex

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