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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... republican and antebellum periods. In chapter 1, for example, I examine in detail an essay from The Lady's Magazine and Musical Repository of November 1801 that begins, ''Friendship is an a√ectionate union of two persons, nearly of the ...
... republican and antebellum periods. In chapter 1, for example, I examine in detail an essay from The Lady's Magazine and Musical Repository of November 1801 that begins, ''Friendship is an a√ectionate union of two persons, nearly of the ...
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... republican ethos of egalitarian attachment and helped create the major literature of the age by writers like Charles Brockden Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville (4– 5). Despite this masculine literary trajectory, Crain ...
... republican ethos of egalitarian attachment and helped create the major literature of the age by writers like Charles Brockden Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville (4– 5). Despite this masculine literary trajectory, Crain ...
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... republican and democratic politics. While elements of classical friendship remained influential, its power as a model for civic community waned in the face of liberal individualism, privatized domesticity, and the normativity of ...
... republican and democratic politics. While elements of classical friendship remained influential, its power as a model for civic community waned in the face of liberal individualism, privatized domesticity, and the normativity of ...
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... republican and early Christian thought, and its interaction with Scottish Common Sense philosophy and emerging notions of sentiment and sympathy. This account of friendship informs my reading of several representative early American ...
... republican and early Christian thought, and its interaction with Scottish Common Sense philosophy and emerging notions of sentiment and sympathy. This account of friendship informs my reading of several representative early American ...
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... republican community. In this pair, the mirroring e√ect of friendship was so potent that it rendered the friends virtually and visually interchangeable. Aristotle reasoned that if the friend is ''another self,'' then self-love is the ...
... republican community. In this pair, the mirroring e√ect of friendship was so potent that it rendered the friends virtually and visually interchangeable. Aristotle reasoned that if the friend is ''another self,'' then self-love is the ...
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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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