Name: Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature (en Inglés)
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Author: Ivy Schweitzer
ISBN: 9780807830697

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Libro Físico

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The University Of North Carolina Press

Autor

Ivy Schweitzer

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0807830690

ISBN13

9780807830697

Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature (en Inglés)

Ivy Schweitzer (Autor) · The University Of North Carolina Press · Tapa Dura

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Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. As Ivy Schweitzer explains, however, this perception leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, Schweitzer uncovers friendships built on a classical model that is both public and political in nature. Schweitzer begins with Aristotle's ideal of "perfect" friendship that positions freely chosen relationships among equals as the highest realization of ethical, social, and political bonds. Evidence in works by John Winthrop, Hannah Foster, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Sedgwick confirms that this classical model shaped early American concepts of friendship and, thus, democracy. Schweitzer argues that recognizing the centrality of friendship as a cultural institution is critical to understanding the rationales for consolidating power among white males in the young nation. She also demonstrates how women, nonelite groups, and minorities have appropriated and redefined the discourse of perfect friendship, making equality its result rather than its requirement. By recovering the public nature of friendship, Schweitzer establishes discourse about affection and affiliation as a central component of American identity and democratic community.