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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crain, Caleb
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.