Discourses and representations of friendship in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 / edited by Daniel T. Lochman, Maritere López, Lorna Hutson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutson, Lorna.

López, Maritere.

Lochman, Daniel T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--17th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

Friendship in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations. Contributors include scholars of British, French, Italian and Spanish culture, offering literary, historical, religious, and political perspectives. Each chapter comprises a case study of specific contexts, narratives and/or lived friendships.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; IntroductionThe Emergence of Discourses: Early Modern Friendship; Part I: Conventional Discourses Reimagined; 1 Bound by Likeness: Vives and Erasmus on Marriage and Friendship; 2 Triangulating Humanist Friendship:More, Giles, Erasmus, and the Making of the Utopia; 3 Friendship's Passion: Love-Fellowship in Sidney's New Arcadia; Part II: Alternative Discourses: Friendship in the Margins; 4 Guzmán de Alfarache's "Other Self":The Limits of Friendship in Spanish Picaresque Fiction

5 The Courtesan's Gift: Reciprocity and Friendship in the Letters of Camilla Pisana and Tullia D'Aragona6 The "Single Lyfe" of Isabella Whitney:Love, Friendship, and the Single Woman Writer; 7 "Friendship Multiplyed":Royalist and Republican Friendship in Katherine Philips's Coterie; Part III: Friendship in Ethics and Politics; 8 "My foule, faulce brest":Friendship and Betrayal in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania; 9 The Friendship of the Wicked in Novella 12of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron; 10 "To plainness is honour bound": Deceptive Friendship in King Lear

11 Politics and Friendship in William Cartwright's The Lady-Errant12 Milton against Servitude: Classical Friendship, Tyranny, and the Law of Nature; 13 From Civic Friendship to Communities of Believers: Anabaptist Challenges to Lutheran and Calvinist Discourses; Afterword; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-315-57751-8

1-317-14979-3

1-283-04815-9

9786613048158

1-4094-3334-X

9781315577517

OCLC:

710972885