American sympathy
Subtitle: men, friendship, and literature in the new nation
By: Caleb Crain.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 -- Characters -- Men; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Men in literature; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism; Male friendship -- United States -- History; Male friendship in literature; Sympathy in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: In the pear grove : the romance of Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio; title: The decomposition of Charles Brockden Brown : sympathy in Brown's letters; title: The transformation, the self devoted, and the dead recalled : sympathy in Brown's fiction; title: The unacknowledged tie : young Emerson and the love of men; title: Too good to be believed : Emerson's "Friendship" and the Samaritans; title: The heart ruled out : Melville's Palinode.