American Sympathy : Men, Friendship and Literature in the New Nation.
Title:
American Sympathy : Men, Friendship and Literature in the New Nation.
Author:
Crain, Caleb.
ISBN:
9780300133677
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Ghost of André -- 1 In the Pear Grove: The Romance of Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio -- 2 The Decomposition of Charles Brockden Brown: Sympathy in Brown's Letters -- 3 The Transformation, the Self Devoted, and the Dead Recalled: Sympathy in Brown's Fiction -- 4 The Unacknowledged Tie: Young Emerson and the Love of Men -- 5 Too Good to Be Believed: Emerson's ''Friendship'' and the Samaritans -- 6 The Heart Ruled Out: Melville's Palinode -- Notes -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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