Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.
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Introduction: The Renascence of Friendship: A Story of American Social and Political Life -- 1. Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Equality and Interchangeability in Friendship Theory -- 2. "Familiar Commerce": John Winthrop's "Modell" of American Affiliation" -- 3. Hannah Webster Foster's Coquette: Resurrecting Friendship from the Tomb of Marriage -- 4. Eat Your Heart Out: James Fenimore Cooper's Male Romance and the American Myth of Interracial Friendship -- 5. The Ethical Horizon of American Friendship in Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie -- Epilogue: The Persistence of Second Selves.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, this book uncovers friendships built on a classical model that is both public and political in nature.
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Title
Perfecting friendship.
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Cooper, James Fenimore,1789-1851-- Criticism and interpretation.