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The Overflowing of Friendship. Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic.
Richard Godbeer
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Description for The Overflowing of Friendship. Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic.
Using an array of personal and public writings, The Overflowing of Friendship will transform our understanding of early American manhood as well as challenge us to reconsider the ways we think about gender in this period. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent affection" that knit their hearts in "indissoluble bonds of fraternal love," their families, neighbors, and acquaintances would have been neither surprised nor disturbed. Richard Godbeer's groundbreaking new book examines loving and sentimental friendships among men in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Inspired in part by the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility and in part by religious models, these relationships were not only important to the personal happiness of those involved but also had broader ... Read more
When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent affection" that knit their hearts in "indissoluble bonds of fraternal love," their families, neighbors, and acquaintances would have been neither surprised nor disturbed. Richard Godbeer's groundbreaking new book examines loving and sentimental friendships among men in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Inspired in part by the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility and in part by religious models, these relationships were not only important to the personal happiness of those involved but also had broader ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801891205
SKU
V9780801891205
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About Richard Godbeer
Richard Godbeer is a professor of history at the University of Miami. His books include Sexual Revolution in Early America, also published by Johns Hopkins, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, and The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England.
Reviews for The Overflowing of Friendship. Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic.
The Overflowing of Friendship is a sophisticated analysis of sources that have long confused historians. Offering a thoughtful window onto the world of early American men, it demonstrates that sympathy and affection were important qualities for the founding fathers.
John Gilbert McCurdy New England Quarterly 2009 Path-breaking... Godbeer has staked out bold ground with this book. Some early Americanists ... Read more
John Gilbert McCurdy New England Quarterly 2009 Path-breaking... Godbeer has staked out bold ground with this book. Some early Americanists ... Read more