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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814878103321

Autore

Godbeer Richard

Titolo

The overflowing of friendship : love between men and the creation of the American republic / / Richard Godbeer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8018-9536-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

305.310973/09033

Soggetti

Men - United States - History - 18th century

Male friendship - United States - History - 18th century

United States Social life and customs 1775-1783

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"The friend of my bosom": a Philadelphian love story -- "A settled portion of my happiness": friendship, sentiment, and eighteenth-century manhood -- "The best blessing we know": male love and spiritual communion in early America -- "A band of brothers": fraternal love in the Continental Army -- "The overflowing of friendship": friends, brothers, and citizens in a republic of sympathy.

Sommario/riassunto

Using an array of personal and public writings, The Overflowing of Friendship will transform our understanding of early American manhood as well as challenge us to reconsider the ways we think about gender in this period.