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American sympathy [electronic resource] : men, friendship, and literature in the new nation / Caleb Crain.

Summary:

This title weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative to describe the strong friendships between men that supported and inspired some of America's greatest writing - the Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melville. The book traces the genealogy of these friendships through a series of stories. Throughout, this book demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300133677 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0300133677 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 310 p.) : ill.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:apr.13 Multi-user. Terms of use - Multi-User. CatBulkString:apr.11.13 CatMonthString:jun.14
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-305) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.