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Examining the novels and short stories of Victorian America, this book uncovers the widely overlooked phenomenon of passionate friendships between men. It offers a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century America's attitudes toward love, friendship, marriage, and sex.

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"Nissen has trumped nearly every other scholar in recapturing and elucidating some fundamental patterns of American Victorian culture. His engaging, even suspenseful, book transported me into those times more fully than anything I know from outside the period itself, such that his insights attain an emotional as well as intellectual force." - John W. Crowley, University of Alabama"

Manly Love Romantic Friendship in American

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/09/2009
      ISBN13: 9780226586663, 978-0226586663
      ISBN10: 0226586669
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examining the novels and short stories of Victorian America, this book uncovers the widely overlooked phenomenon of passionate friendships between men. It offers a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century America's attitudes toward love, friendship, marriage, and sex.

      Trade Review
      "Nissen has trumped nearly every other scholar in recapturing and elucidating some fundamental patterns of American Victorian culture. His engaging, even suspenseful, book transported me into those times more fully than anything I know from outside the period itself, such that his insights attain an emotional as well as intellectual force." - John W. Crowley, University of Alabama"

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