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.