Perfecting friendship: politics and affiliation in early American literature
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Main Author: Schweitzer, Ivy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2006
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-258) and index
Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, this book uncovers friendships built on a classical model that is both public and political in nature
Introduction: The Renascence of Friendship: A Story of American Social and Political Life -- 1. Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Equality and Interchangeability in Friendship Theory -- 2. "Familiar Commerce": John Winthrop's "Modell" of American Affiliation" -- 3. Hannah Webster Foster's Coquette: Resurrecting Friendship from the Tomb of Marriage -- 4. Eat Your Heart Out: James Fenimore Cooper's Male Romance and the American Myth of Interracial Friendship -- 5. The Ethical Horizon of American Friendship in Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie -- Epilogue: The Persistence of Second Selves
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 276 p.)
ISBN:0807876712
9780807876718

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