American sympathy [electronic resource] : men, friendship, and literature in the new nation / Caleb Crain.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.Description: x, 310 p. : illSubject(s): - Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 -- Characters -- Men
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Friendship
- American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism
- Men in literature
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism
- Male friendship -- United States -- History
- Male friendship in literature
- Sympathy in literature
- 810.9/352041 21
- PS173.M36 C7 2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-305) and index.
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.
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