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Manly love : romantic friendship in American fiction / Axel Nissen.
LIBRA PS377 .N577 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nissen, Axel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Male friendship in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 229 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- What's the story?: the fiction of romantic friendship, part I
- Odds 'n' ends: the fiction of romantic friendship, part II
- Sex and the city: Cecil Dreeme and the antebellum sex/gender system
- Compulsory domesticity: Roderick Hudson, love, and friendship in the Gilded Age
- How the other half loved: A saloonkeeper's daughter in the company of women
- A tramp at home: Huckleberry Finn, romantic friendship, and the homeless man
- The other man: homofiliation, marriage, and A hazard of new fortunes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226586663
- 0226586669
- OCLC:
- 263146845
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