Intimacy and Affliction: DuBois, Race, and Psychoanalysis

Abstract

Peter Coviello is assistant professor of English at Bowdoin College. His essays have appeared in American Literature, Early American Literature,Studies in American Fiction, and elsewhere. His book Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature is forthcoming.

An interview with Joan W Scott

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