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The Overflowing of Friendship : Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801895364
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Overflowing of FriendshipDDC classification:
  • 305.310973/09033
LOC classification:
  • HQ1090.3.G63 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "The Friend of My Bosom": A Philadelphian Love Story -- 2 "A Settled Portion of My Happiness": Friendship, Sentiment, and Eighteenth-Century Manhood -- 3 "The Best Blessing We Know": Male Love and Spiritual Communion in Early America -- 4 "A Band of Brothers": Fraternal Love in the Continental Army -- 5 "The Overflowing of Friendship": Friends, Brothers, and Citizens in a Republic of Sympathy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Using an array of personal and public writings, The Overflowing of Friendship will transform our understanding of early American manhood as well as challenge us to reconsider the ways we think about gender in this period.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "The Friend of My Bosom": A Philadelphian Love Story -- 2 "A Settled Portion of My Happiness": Friendship, Sentiment, and Eighteenth-Century Manhood -- 3 "The Best Blessing We Know": Male Love and Spiritual Communion in Early America -- 4 "A Band of Brothers": Fraternal Love in the Continental Army -- 5 "The Overflowing of Friendship": Friends, Brothers, and Citizens in a Republic of Sympathy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Using an array of personal and public writings, The Overflowing of Friendship will transform our understanding of early American manhood as well as challenge us to reconsider the ways we think about gender in this period.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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