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Friendship's shadows : women's friendship and the politics of betrayal in England, 1640-1705 /
Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanist friendship, showing its surprising resilience as a model for political obligation undone and remade. Incorporating authors from Cicero to Abraham Cowley and Margaret Cavendish to Mary Astell, the book focuses on two extraordinary women writers, the royalist Katherine Philips and the republican Lucy Hutchinson. And it explores the ways in which they appropriate the friendship tradition in order to address problems of conflicting allegiances in the English Civil Wars and Restoration. As Penelope Anderson suggests, their writings on friendship provide a new account of women's relation to public life, organized through textual exchange rather than bodily reproduction. Key Features Studies early modern women's friendship in depth for the first time Offers an account of the classical and humanist discourse of friendship by revealing the centrality of betrayal to the Aristotelian, Ciceronian, and Epicurean traditions Intervenes within recent feminist and queer theory by showing textual friendship to be an alternative account of women's relation to public life Articulates the links between women's literary writing and political theories such as contract theory, natural sociability, and patriarchalism Contributes to the growing interest in early modern women's writing, drawing on extensive archival materials and texts |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748676620 0748676627 9780748655830 0748655832 9780748655854 0748655859 9780748655847 0748655840 1299105580 9781299105584 |