Founding friendships [electronic resource] : friendships between men and women in the early American republic / Cassandra A. Good.

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""When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and debated as far back as the birth...

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Main Author: Good, Cassandra A.
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Friendship > United States > History > 18th century.
Friendship > United States > History > 19th century.
Man-woman relationships > United States > 18th century.
Man-woman relationships > United States > 19th century.
United States > History > 1783-1865.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Founding Friendships Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.