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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... important form of social and public a≈liation. Although scholars have recently begun to pay more attention to friendship as a sociological trend, they generally consider it a private relation outside of formal social regulation, di ...
... important form of social and public a≈liation. Although scholars have recently begun to pay more attention to friendship as a sociological trend, they generally consider it a private relation outside of formal social regulation, di ...
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... important to Addie Brown not just as a private expression of a√ection or individual predilection but as a public social structure of a≈liation, self-improvement, and gender/racial identification. On a practical level, friendship with ...
... important to Addie Brown not just as a private expression of a√ection or individual predilection but as a public social structure of a≈liation, self-improvement, and gender/racial identification. On a practical level, friendship with ...
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... the 1970s and 1980s on women's friendships brought these extraordinarily rich and important relationships out of the shadow of masculinist literary and social history. These scholars were responding, at least 6 Introduction.
... the 1970s and 1980s on women's friendships brought these extraordinarily rich and important relationships out of the shadow of masculinist literary and social history. These scholars were responding, at least 6 Introduction.
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... importance of sentiment in early American literature, throwing female friendship, interracial relations, and an emerging interdisciplinary history of emotions into high relief.∞∞ In her 1999 study, Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo ...
... importance of sentiment in early American literature, throwing female friendship, interracial relations, and an emerging interdisciplinary history of emotions into high relief.∞∞ In her 1999 study, Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo ...
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... important source for male writers who borrowed extensively from the feminine discourse of sentimentality (13). But in light of Ellison's argument, we should ask, what was the source, rather than the e√ect, of feminine sentimentality ...
... important source for male writers who borrowed extensively from the feminine discourse of sentimentality (13). But in light of Ellison's argument, we should ask, what was the source, rather than the e√ect, of feminine sentimentality ...
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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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