American sympathy men, friendship, and literature in the new nation /

Crain, Caleb.

American sympathy men, friendship, and literature in the new nation / [electronic resource] : Caleb Crain. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001. - x, 310 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-305) and index.

In the pear grove : the romance of Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio -- The decomposition of Charles Brockden Brown : sympathy in Brown's letters -- The transformation, the self devoted, and the dead recalled : sympathy in Brown's fiction -- The unacknowledged tie : young Emerson and the love of men -- Too good to be believed : Emerson's "Friendship" and the Samaritans -- The heart ruled out : Melville's Palinode.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 --Characters--Men.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Friendship.


American literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
Men in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--1783-1850
Male friendship--History.--United States
Male friendship in literature.
Sympathy in literature.


Electronic books.

PS173.M36 / C7 2001

810.9/352041