Perfecting friendship [electronic resource] : politics and affiliation in early American literature / Ivy Schweitzer.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.Description: xi, 276 p. : illISBN:- 0807830690 (alk. paper)
- 0807857785 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780807830697 (alk. paper)
- 9780807857786 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840. Coquette
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867. Hope Leslie
- Winthrop, John, 1588-1649
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Friendship in literature
- Friendship -- Sociological aspects
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Political culture -- United States -- History
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History
- 810.9/353 22
- PS169.F69 S39 2006eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-258) and index.
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