TY - BOOK ID - 22989939 TI - American sympathy : men, friendship, and literature in the new nation PY - 2001 SN - 0300083327 9786611722845 1281722847 0300133677 9780300133677 9781281722843 9780300083323 PB - London New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Amitié entre hommes dans la littérature KW - Hommes dans la littérature KW - Male friendship in literature KW - Mannen in de literatuur KW - Men in literature KW - Sympathie dans la littérature KW - Sympathie in de literatuur KW - Sympathy in literature KW - Vriendschap tussen mannen in de literatuur KW - American literature KW - Thematology KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Male authors KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - 1783-1850 KW - Male friendship KW - United States KW - History KW - Brown, Charles Brockden KW - Characters KW - Men KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo KW - Mifflin, John Fishbourne KW - Gibson, James KW - Brown, Charles Brockden, - 1771-1810 - Characters - Men. KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, - 1803-1882. - Friendship. KW - Men in literature. KW - Male friendship in literature. KW - Sympathy in literature. KW - Friendship between men KW - Friendship in men KW - Mens' friendship KW - Friendship KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Brown, Charles Brockden, KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, KW - Brown, C. B. KW - Brown, Brockden, KW - C. B. B. KW - B., C. B. KW - Poplicola, KW - Author of An address to the government of the United States, on the cession of Louisiana, KW - Address to the government of the United States, on the cession of Louisiana, Author of, KW - French counsellor of state, KW - Men. KW - Bromance (Male friendship) KW - Men's friendship UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22989939 AB - "A friend in history," Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "looks like some premature soul." And in the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation's literature. In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative, Crain describes 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 Melville. He traces the genealogy of these friendships through a series of stories. A dapper English spy inspires a Quaker boy to run away from home. Three Philadelphia gentlemen conduct a romance through diaries and letters in the 1780's. Flighty teenager Charles Brockden Brown metamorphoses into a horror novelist by treating his friends as his literary guinea pigs. Emerson exchanges glances with a Harvard classmate but sacrifices his crush on the altar of literature--a decision Margaret Fuller invites him to reconsider two decades later. Throughout this engaging book, Crain demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature. ER -