Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

Name: Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
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By: Maritere Lopez, Daniel T. Lochman (Editor), Lorna Hutson (Editor)

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Hardcover Published: 28th December 2010
ISBN: 9780754669036
Number Of Pages: 292

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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. The volume is carefully designed to reflect the complexity and multi-faceted nature of early modern friendship, and each chapter comprises a case study of specific contexts, narratives and/or lived friendships. Contributors include scholars of British, French, Italian and Spanish culture, offering literary, historical, religious, and political perspectives. Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 lays the groundwork for a taxonomy of the transformations of friendship discourse in Western Europe and its overlap with emergent views of the psyche and the body, as well as of the relationship of the self to others, classes, social institutions and the state.

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'... the authors give a successful overview of the numerous concepts and practices of friendship in early modern times. ... The choice of interdisciplinary essays provides the reader with a wide range of analyses of doctrinal, political and literary texts. True to the volume's title, the essays cover a wide geographical and social range. In doing so, the authors succeed in giving an all-encompassing overview of contemporary scholarship on friendship.' Seventeenth Century

Preface; Introduction: the emergence of discourses: early modern friendship, Daniel Lochman and Maritere Lopez; Part I Conventional Discourses Re-Imagined: Bound by likeness: Vives and Erasmus on marriage and friendship, Constance M. Furey; Triangulating humanist friendship: More, Gile, Erasmus and the making of the Utopia, Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski; Friendship's passion: love-fellowship in Sidney's new Arcadia, Daniel Lochman.; Part II Alternative Discourses: Friendship in the Margins: Guzman de Alfarache's 'other self': the limits of friendship in Spanish picaresque fiction, Donald Gilbert-Santamaria; The courtesan's gift: reciprocity and friendship in the letters of Camilla Pisana and Tullia D'Aragona, Maritere Lopez; The 'single lyfe' of Isabella Whitney: love, friendship and the single woman writer, Allison Johnson; 'Friendship multiplyed': Royalist and Republican friendship in Katherine Philips's coterie, Penelope Anderson.; Part III Friendship in Ethics and politics: From civic friendship to communities of believers: Anabaptist challenges to Lutheran and Calvinist discourses, Thomas Heilke; The friendship of the wicked in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, Marc D. Schachter; 'To plainness is honour bound': disguises of friendship in King Lear, Wendy Olmstead; 'My foule, faulce brest': friendship and betrayal in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh; Politics and friendship in William Cartwright's The Lady-Errant, Christopher Marlow; Milton against servitude: classical friendship, tyranny, and the law of nature, Gregory Chaplin; Afterword, Lorna Hutson; Works cited; Index.

ISBN: 9780754669036
ISBN-10: 0754669033
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 292
Published: 28th December 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.88 x 3.18
Weight (kg): 0.59
Edition Type: New edition