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American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation Hardcover – Illustrated, June 1, 2001

by Caleb Crain (Author)
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    320 pages
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    Yale University Press
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    June 1, 2001
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    9.54 x 6.44 x 0.91 inches
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    0300083327
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Lingua Franca contributing editor Crain examines the tradition of sympathy and friendship between men in early American life and literature. Interpreting Charles Brockden Brown's novels Wieland and Arthur Mervyn, Emerson's essay "Friendship," and Melville's Billy Budd, Crain shows how a tradition of male discourse and ideas presents itself through personal life, friendships, and artistic creations. Using the writings of Plato, Montaigne, Bacon, and Adam Smith and insights gained from letters and diaries of the period, Crain follows a history of the ideas of friendship and compassion as they change and develop. The romantic aspect of the death of the British spy John Andre, early American diarists in Philadelphia, William Godwin's influence on Brown's thinking, the circle of friends around Margaret Fuller, and Melville's great personal hero, Jack Chase, are all carefully detailed. Written from a lesbian and gay studies perspective, the volume discusses overt sexuality and hidden desires. A fascinating study, this should be highly useful for lesbian and gay studies and literature collections. Gene Shaw, NYPL
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"Crain skillfully combines history, biography and literary criticism to interpret a variety of written effusions between men." -- Clifford Chase, Newsday

"Remarkable and engagingly written, . . . a major contribution to the rethinking of the deeper origins of American prose style and substance." -- Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University

"[An] evocative study…[Crain] detect[s] the nuances of language and behavior that escape a modern eye." -- Graham Robb, New York Times Book Review

"[Crain] breaks through the he-man-writer's wall to expose how literary friendships between men inspired their work." -- Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

An evocative study proposing that. . .male friendship and [its] outspoken language. . .are vital. . .to the development of early American literature. -- New York Times Book Review, Notable Nonfiction Books of 2001

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; Illustrated edition (June 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300083327
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300083323
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.54 x 6.44 x 0.91 inches
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Caleb Crain is the author of the novels OVERTHROW (coming from Viking in August 2019) and NECESSARY ERRORS (Penguin, 2013), as well as the critical study AMERICAN SYMPATHY (Yale, 2001). He has written for The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, and The Atlantic. He was born in Texas, grew up in Massachusetts, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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