The Overflowing of Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Richard Godbeer
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Richard Godbeer's groundbreaking book examines loving and sentimental friendships among men in the colonial and revolutionary periods. He argues that, in the aftermath of Independence, patriots drafted a central place for male friendship in their social and political blueprint for the new republic. American revolutionaries shifted attention away from patriarchal authority to a more egalitarian model of brotherly collaboration. In striving to explore the inner emotional lives of early Americans, Godbeer succeeds in presenting an entirely fresh perspective on the personal relationships and political structures of the period.
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.--New England Quarterly
Godbeer has staked out bold ground with this book. Some early Americanists will surely scoff at the notion that sentimentality was relevant even in the macho arena of state formation, just as historians of sexuality will freeze at the inference that there is no sexual attraction or intimacy between these men. That one book could successfully intervene with both the oldest historiographical and the newest theoretical question is no small feat, but rather one for which Godbeer deserves the appreciation and admiration of his fellow historians.--Journal of the Early Republic
His beautifully crafted book breaks important new ground by connecting the ideal of sympathetic fraternal love to the reconceptualization of politics and political community in revolutionary America.--American Historical Review
Godbeer's evocative narrative format allows the reader to enter a lost world of sentiment and even physical affection between men. Godbeer complicates, as others have before him, the modern binaries of sexuality, but he also argues that male friendship provides a new way of seeing familiar faces and analyzing familiar events of colonial British North American history in the eighteenth century.--Journal of American History
--E. Anthony Rotundo, author of American Manhood "Common-Place"Details
- Title The Overflowing of Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic
- Author Richard Godbeer
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780801891205 / 0801891205
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Topical: Friendship
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -, Men - United States - History - 18th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008021044
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.310
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Citations
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 03/13/2009, Page 19
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 145
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