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American sympathy : men, friendship, and literature in the new nation Caleb Crain
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS 173 .M36 C7 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crain, Caleb.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Men in literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
- Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810--Characters--Men.
- Brown, Charles Brockden.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Friendship.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
- Male friendship--United States--History.
- Male friendship.
- Male friendship in literature.
- Sympathy in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.
- Contents:
- In the pear grove : the romance of Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio
- The decomposition of Charles Brockden Brown : sympathy in Brown's letters
- The transformation, the self devoted, and the dead recalled : sympathy in Brown's fiction
- The unacknowledged tie : young Emerson and the love of men
- Too good to be believed : Emerson's "Friendship" and the Samaritans
- The heart ruled out : Melville's Palinode.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-305) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line -- Graphics: Watercolor sketch of "A Party to Virginia," Rhoads Family Manuscripts.
- ISBN:
- 0300083327 (alk. paper)
- 9780300083323 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 45166603
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