LEADER 03177nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910451683803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8078-7671-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000477317 035 $a(EBL)427155 035 $a(OCoLC)476268737 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000219743 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11910738 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219743 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247708 035 $a(PQKB)10172144 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC427155 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL427155 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273385 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930831 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000477317 100 $a20060602d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPerfecting friendship$b[electronic resource] $epolitics and affiliation in early American literature /$fIvy Schweitzer 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5778-5 311 $a0-8078-3069-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-258) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Friendship 327 $aCHAPTER FIVE: The Ethical Horizon of American Friendship in Catharine Sedgwick's Hope LeslieEpilogue: The Persistence of Second Selves; Notes; Works Cited; Index; 330 $aContemporary 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFriendship in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aFriendship$xSociological aspects 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFriendship in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aFriendship$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 676 $a810.9/353 700 $aSchweitzer$b Ivy$0850398 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451683803321 996 $aPerfecting friendship$91898747 997 $aUNINA