Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American LiteratureUniv of North Carolina Press, 06 սեպ, 2007 թ. - 288 էջ Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. As Ivy Schweitzer explains, however, this perception leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, Schweitzer uncovers friendships built on a classical model that is both public and political in nature. Schweitzer begins with Aristotle's ideal of "perfect" friendship that positions freely chosen relationships among equals as the highest realization of ethical, social, and political bonds. Evidence in works by John Winthrop, Hannah Foster, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Sedgwick confirms that this classical model shaped early American concepts of friendship and, thus, democracy. Schweitzer argues that recognizing the centrality of friendship as a cultural institution is critical to understanding the rationales for consolidating power among white males in the young nation. She also demonstrates how women, nonelite groups, and minorities have appropriated and redefined the discourse of perfect friendship, making equality its result rather than its requirement. By recovering the public nature of friendship, Schweitzer establishes discourse about affection and affiliation as a central component of American identity and democratic community. |
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... criticism. 2. Friendship in literature. 3. Winthrop, John, 1588– 1649. 4. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789–1851— Criticism and interpretation. 5. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789–1867. Hope Leslie. 6. Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759–1840 ...
... criticism. 2. Friendship in literature. 3. Winthrop, John, 1588– 1649. 4. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789–1851— Criticism and interpretation. 5. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789–1867. Hope Leslie. 6. Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759–1840 ...
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... critics by supposedly racier narratives of heterosexual romance, miscegenation, and reproduction. In this study, I argue that the prevailing understandings of early American culture and politics have been so dominated by the a≈liative ...
... critics by supposedly racier narratives of heterosexual romance, miscegenation, and reproduction. In this study, I argue that the prevailing understandings of early American culture and politics have been so dominated by the a≈liative ...
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... critics have typically construed same-sex friendships in early American texts as ''homosocial'' in a sense that inevitably implies homoeroticism.π This conflation is the result of a larger cultural trend, initiated in the early modern ...
... critics have typically construed same-sex friendships in early American texts as ''homosocial'' in a sense that inevitably implies homoeroticism.π This conflation is the result of a larger cultural trend, initiated in the early modern ...
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... critics saw only male stoicism, now an emotionalized Roman republicanism filtered through Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments infuses the model Ellison elucidates for Anglo-American a≈liation. She captures its essence in this ...
... critics saw only male stoicism, now an emotionalized Roman republicanism filtered through Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments infuses the model Ellison elucidates for Anglo-American a≈liation. She captures its essence in this ...
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... critics like Ellison and Shannon who highlight the amicitia of Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman and orator whose treatise on friendship, De amicitia, was a popular text for teaching Latin.∞∏ In this study, I focus mainly on ...
... critics like Ellison and Shannon who highlight the amicitia of Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman and orator whose treatise on friendship, De amicitia, was a popular text for teaching Latin.∞∏ In this study, I focus mainly on ...
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Smoke and Mirrors A History of Equality and Interchangeability in Friendship Theory | 27 |
Familiar Commerce John Winthrops Modell of American Affiliation | 73 |
Hannah Webster Fosters Coquette Resurrecting Friendship from the Tomb of Marriage | 103 |
Eat Your Heart Out James Fenimore Coopers Male Romance and the American Myth of Interracial Friendship | 133 |
The Ethical Horizon of American Friendship in Catharine Sedgwicks Hope Leslie | 165 |
The Persistence of Second Selves | 207 |
Notes | 211 |
Works Cited | 239 |
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