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1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Renascence of Friendship: A Story of American Social and Political Life -- 1. Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Equality and Interchangeability in Friendship Theory -- 2. "Familiar Commerce": John Winthrop's "Modell" of American Affiliation" -- 3. Hannah Webster Foster's Coquette: Resurrecting Friendship from the Tomb of Marriage -- 4. Eat Your Heart Out: James Fenimore Cooper's Male Romance and the American Myth of Interracial Friendship -- 5. The Ethical Horizon of American Friendship in Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie -- Epilogue: The Persistence of Second Selves |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Winthrop, John, 1588-1649.
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Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867. Hope Leslie
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Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840. Coquette.
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| SUBJECT |
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 fast |
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Winthrop, John, 1588-1649 fast |
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Coquette (Foster, Hannah Webster) fast |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Friendship in literature.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Friendship -- Sociological aspects.
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Political culture -- United States -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Friendship in literature
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Friendship -- Sociological aspects
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Political culture
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Politics and literature
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Literatur
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Freundschaft Motiv
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Politik Motiv
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006018318 |
| ISBN |
9780807876718 |
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0807876712 |
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