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The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts /

The Imperfect Friend sheds new light on how the writings of Sidney, Milton, and others grappled with problems of personal identity. From their innovations, the study concludes, friendship emerges as a favourite site of counseling the afflicted and perturbed.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olmsted, Wendy, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Counselling the unstable self: conflicting emotional frameworks, persuasion, and inwardness
  • Unyielding judge of gentle physician? the friend as counsellor in Guazzo's The Civile Conversation and Sidney's Old Arcadia
  • Poetry as orator and physician in Sidney's Defence
  • The politics of emotion in hospitality, rivalry, and erotic love: Sidney's New Arcadia
  • Anger as an instrument of justice: the vehement versus the mild style of Milton's early prose
  • Emotion as defined by the discourse of hounor: spiritual warfare and rhetorical agon in Paradise Lost
  • Seventeenth-Century protestant rhetoric: cause and cure of fallen emotion
  • Marriage as a site of counsel in marriage handbooks, Milton's divorce pamphlets, and Paradise Lost.