Manly love
Subtitle: romantic friendship in American fiction, 1850-1900
By: Axel Nissen.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226586663
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Male friendship in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's the story?: the fiction of romantic friendship, part I; title: Odds 'n' ends: the fiction of romantic friendship, part II; title: Sex and the city: Cecil Dreeme and antebellum sexual ideology; title: Compulsory domesticity: Roderick Hudson, love, and friendship in the Gilded Age; title: How the other half loved: a saloonkeeper's daughter in the company of women; title: A tramp at home: Huckleberry Finn, romantic friendship, and the homeless man; title: The other man: homofiliation, marriage, and a hazard of new fortunes.