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Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature
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April 1, 2008
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Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature. By Ivy Schweitzer. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 276 pp. $49.95/$.49.95 paper.
In this intellectually intrepid study, Ivy Schweitzer explicates a long history of "friendship discourses" dating back to the classical world (6), arguing that early American authors drew upon and, to varying degrees, attempted to reshape those discourses. Excavating an ideal of friendship that held a much deeper political resonance prior to the twentieth century, Schweitzer offers thoughtful readings of four early American literary works.
Schweitzer finds friendship to be at the thematic and political heart ...
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