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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... Sympathy is the magic charm of life; and a friend will both give it, and feel it, and never shrink from speaking truth, however painful, kindly indeed, but faithfully, and will infuse and receive strength by the mutual confidence of ...
... Sympathy is the magic charm of life; and a friend will both give it, and feel it, and never shrink from speaking truth, however painful, kindly indeed, but faithfully, and will infuse and receive strength by the mutual confidence of ...
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... sympathy'' and asserted ''that to feel much for others . . . and to indulge our benevolent a√ections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions'' (15, 25) ...
... sympathy'' and asserted ''that to feel much for others . . . and to indulge our benevolent a√ections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions'' (15, 25) ...
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... Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation, for example, Caleb Crain gives copious evidence of the existence of ''romantic'' male friendships based on sympathy in both its light and dark guises in the late eighteenth ...
... Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation, for example, Caleb Crain gives copious evidence of the existence of ''romantic'' male friendships based on sympathy in both its light and dark guises in the late eighteenth ...
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... sympathy, friendship, I argue, is a crucial and overlooked cultural practice and institution with a complex history not adequately recognized in the emerging field of emotion studies. I take my cue from Aristotle, who gathered up and ...
... sympathy, friendship, I argue, is a crucial and overlooked cultural practice and institution with a complex history not adequately recognized in the emerging field of emotion studies. I take my cue from Aristotle, who gathered up and ...
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... sympathy. This account of friendship informs my reading of several representative early American texts in the following four chapters. I argue that for Aristotle, as for other classical thinkers, perfect friendship, though regarded as ...
... sympathy. This account of friendship informs my reading of several representative early American texts in the following four chapters. I argue that for Aristotle, as for other classical thinkers, perfect friendship, though regarded as ...
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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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