Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American LiteratureUniv of North Carolina Press, 2006 - Počet stran: 276 Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. As Ivy Schweitzer explains, however, this perception leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration |
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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 | 27 |
Familiar Commerce John Winthrops Modell of American Affiliation | 73 |
Hannah Webster Fosters Coquette Resurrecting Friendship from the Tomb of Marriage | 103 |
Eat Your Heart Out James Fenimore Coopers Male Romance and the American Myth of Interracial Friendship | 133 |
The Ethical Horizon of American Friendship in Catharine Sedgwicks Hope Leslie | 165 |
The Persistence of Second Selves | 207 |
Notes | 211 |
Works Cited | 239 |
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Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer Náhled není k dispozici. - 2006 |
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