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

By: Crain, Caleb.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001Description: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/352041 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.