Founding friendships : friendships between men and women in the early American republic /
Good, Cassandra A.,
Founding friendships : friendships between men and women in the early American republic / Friendships between men and women in the early American republic Cassandra A. Good. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (ix, 289 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Three Stories of Friendship -- 2. Reading Friendship -- 3. Friends and Lovers -- 4. Propriety, Positioning, and the Public Face of Friendship -- 5. Friendly Letters -- 6. The Gifts of Friendship -- 7. The Power of Friendship -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
"American popular culture is filled with movies, books, and articles asking whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra Good demonstrates that this is hardly a new issue; indeed, many of the nation's founding fathers had female friends. Elite men and women over two hundred years ago formed loving, politically significant friendships. Abigail Adams called her friend Thomas Jefferson 'one of the choice ones on earth,' while George Washington signed a letter to his friend Elizabeth Powel with the words 'I am always Yours.' The emotionally rich language of this period is often mistaken for romance, but this book's innovative analysis of letters, diaries, poetry, and novels in the past reveals that friendships between men and women were quite common. At a time when personal relationships were deeply political, these friendships embodied the core values of the new nation. Founding Friendships offers a fresh and expansive look at how America's founding generation of men and women defined and experienced friendship, love, gender, and power in the new nation"--
9780199376209 9780199376186
Friendship--History--United States--18th century.
Friendship--History--United States--19th century.
Man-woman relationships--United States--18th century.
Man-woman relationships--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
BF575 / .F686 2015
Founding friendships : friendships between men and women in the early American republic / Friendships between men and women in the early American republic Cassandra A. Good. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (ix, 289 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Three Stories of Friendship -- 2. Reading Friendship -- 3. Friends and Lovers -- 4. Propriety, Positioning, and the Public Face of Friendship -- 5. Friendly Letters -- 6. The Gifts of Friendship -- 7. The Power of Friendship -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
"American popular culture is filled with movies, books, and articles asking whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra Good demonstrates that this is hardly a new issue; indeed, many of the nation's founding fathers had female friends. Elite men and women over two hundred years ago formed loving, politically significant friendships. Abigail Adams called her friend Thomas Jefferson 'one of the choice ones on earth,' while George Washington signed a letter to his friend Elizabeth Powel with the words 'I am always Yours.' The emotionally rich language of this period is often mistaken for romance, but this book's innovative analysis of letters, diaries, poetry, and novels in the past reveals that friendships between men and women were quite common. At a time when personal relationships were deeply political, these friendships embodied the core values of the new nation. Founding Friendships offers a fresh and expansive look at how America's founding generation of men and women defined and experienced friendship, love, gender, and power in the new nation"--
9780199376209 9780199376186
Friendship--History--United States--18th century.
Friendship--History--United States--19th century.
Man-woman relationships--United States--18th century.
Man-woman relationships--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
BF575 / .F686 2015