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Author Crain, Caleb.

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

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.

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Description x, 310 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-305) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0300083327 (alk. paper)

 
    
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