Description: Friendship and Its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century, Hardcover by Brown, Cedric C., ISBN 0198790791, ISBN-13 9780198790792, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Cedric C. Brown combines the study of literature and social history in order to recognize the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental,
and sees these practices as often co-terminous with gift exchange. Failure to recognize the inter-connected range of a friendship spectrum has hitherto limited the adequacy of some modern studies of friendship, often weighted towards the intimate or gendered-related issues. This book focuses both on
friendships represented in imaginative works and on lived friendships in many textual and material forms, in an attempt to recognize cultural environments and functions.
In order to provide depth and coherence, case histories have been selected from the middle and later parts of the seventeenth century. Nevertheless many kinds of bonds are recognized, as between patron and client, mentor and pupil, within the family, within marriage, in courtship, or according to
fashionable refined friendship theory. Both humanist and religious values systems are registered, and friendships are configured in cross-gendered and same-sex relationships. Theories of friendship are also included. Apart from written documents, the range of "texts" extends to keepsakes, pictures,
funerary monument and memorial garden features. Figures discussed at length include Henry More and the Finch/Conway family, John Evelyn, Jeremy Taylor, Elizabeth Carey/Mordaunt, John Milton, Charles Diodati, Cyriac Skinner, Dorothy Osborne/Temple, William Temple, Lord Arlington, Sir Orlando
Bridgeman, and Katherine Phillips and her circle, especially Anne Owen/Trevor and Sir Charles Cotterell.
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Book Title: Friendship and Its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Friendship and Its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: General, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.7 Oz
Item Length: 8.7 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Cedric C. Brown
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
