American sympathy : men, friendship, and literature in the new nation /
This title weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative to describe the strong friendships between men that supported and inspired some of America's greatest writing - the Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melvill...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.