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.