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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Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer. ∫ 2006 The University of North Carolina Press ... Political culture—United States—History. I. Title. ps169.f69s39 2006 810.9%353—dc22 2006018318 cloth 10 09 08 07 06 ...
Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer. ∫ 2006 The University of North Carolina Press ... Political culture—United States—History. I. Title. ps169.f69s39 2006 810.9%353—dc22 2006018318 cloth 10 09 08 07 06 ...
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Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer. CONTENTS. CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE ... Political Life 1 Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Equality and Interchangeability in Friendship Theory 27 ''Familiar ...
Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer. CONTENTS. CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE ... Political Life 1 Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Equality and Interchangeability in Friendship Theory 27 ''Familiar ...
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Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer. Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not ... Political Life noncoincidence between self and other that gives rise to a desire for an illusory sameness. —Diana ...
Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer. Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not ... Political Life noncoincidence between self and other that gives rise to a desire for an illusory sameness. —Diana ...
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... political ideas of German philosopher Carl Schmitt has focused attention on enmity, in particular Schmitt's understanding that politics can be reduced to the distinction between friend and enemy (26).∂ I bracket a consideration of that ...
... political ideas of German philosopher Carl Schmitt has focused attention on enmity, in particular Schmitt's understanding that politics can be reduced to the distinction between friend and enemy (26).∂ I bracket a consideration of that ...
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Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer. draw of like to like—what Victorians would have ... political meanings of same-sex a≈liation in various historical moments and, as we see with Addie Brown, among ...
Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer. draw of like to like—what Victorians would have ... political meanings of same-sex a≈liation in various historical moments and, as we see with Addie Brown, among ...
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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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