"A friend in history", Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "looks like
some premature soul". And in the history of friendship in early
America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation's literature.
In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism
and historical narrative, Crain describes the strong friendships
between men that supported and inspired some of America's greatest
writing -- the Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melville. He
traces the genealogy of these friendships through a series of
stories. A dapper English spy inspires a Quaker boy to run away
from home. Three Philadelphia gentlemen conduct a romance through
diaries and letters in the 1780s. Flighty teenager Charles Brockden
Brown metamorphoses into a horror novelist by treating his friends
as his literary guinea pigs. Emerson exchanges glances with a
Harvard classmate but sacrifices his crush on the altar of
literature -- a decision Margaret Fuller invites him to reconsider
two decades later. Throughout this engaging book, Crain
demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings
to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature.
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