Perfecting friendship : politics and affiliation in early American literature
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.
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780807830697, 9780807857786, 0807830690, 0807857785
70129053
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