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Perfecting friendship : politics and affiliation in early American literature / Ivy Schweitzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schweitzer, Ivy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Friendship in literature.
- Politics and literature--United States--History.
- Politics and literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Friendship--Sociological aspects.
- Friendship.
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- Winthrop, John, 1588-1649.
- Winthrop, John.
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cooper, James Fenimore.
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867. Hope Leslie.
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
- Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840. Coquette.
- Foster, Hannah Webster.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 Friendship
- CHAPTER FIVE: The Ethical Horizon of American Friendship in Catharine Sedgwick's Hope LeslieEpilogue: The Persistence of Second Selves; Notes; Works Cited; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890881366
- 9780807876718
- 0807876712
- OCLC:
- 476268737
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