03177nam 2200673 a 450 991077814990332120230828203153.0979-88-908813-6-60-8078-7671-2(CKB)1000000000477317(EBL)427155(OCoLC)476268737(SSID)ssj0000219743(PQKBManifestationID)11910738(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219743(PQKBWorkID)10247708(PQKB)10172144(Au-PeEL)EBL427155(CaPaEBR)ebr10273385(CaONFJC)MIL930831(MiAaPQ)EBC427155(EXLCZ)99100000000047731720060602d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPerfecting friendship[electronic resource] politics and affiliation in early American literature /Ivy SchweitzerChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20061 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5778-5 0-8078-3069-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-258) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Renascence of Friendship: A Story of American Social and Political Life; CHAPTER ONE: Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Equality and Interchangeability in Friendship Theory; CHAPTER TWO: "Familiar Commerce": John Winthrop's "Modell" of American Affiliation; CHAPTER THREE: Hannah Webster Foster's Coquette: Resurrecting Friendship from the Tomb of Marriage; CHAPTER FOUR: Eat Your Heart Out: James Fenimore Cooper's Male Romance and the American Myth of Interracial FriendshipCHAPTER FIVE: The Ethical Horizon of American Friendship in Catharine Sedgwick's Hope LeslieEpilogue: The Persistence of Second Selves; Notes; Works Cited; 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.American literatureHistory and criticismFriendship in literaturePolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistoryNational characteristics, American, in literatureFriendshipSociological aspectsPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Friendship in literature.Politics and literatureHistory.National characteristics, American, in literature.FriendshipSociological aspects.Political cultureHistory.810.9/353Schweitzer Ivy850398MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778149903321Perfecting friendship3836749UNINA