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.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2008.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.