The Imperfect Friend : Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and Their Conexts /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olmsted, Wendy, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Milton, John.
Sidney, Philip.
Sidney, Philip > Motiv > Emotion.
Sidney, Philip > Motiv > Freundschaft.
Milton, John > Motiv > Emotion.
Milton, John > Motiv > Freundschaft.
Sidney, Philip, > 1554-1586.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Critique et interpretation.
Sidney, Philip, > Sir, > 1554-1586 > Critique et interpretation.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sidney, Philip, > 1554-1586 > Criticism and interpretation.
Englische Literatur > Motiv > Freundschaft.
Englische Literatur > Motiv > Emotion.
Freundschaft > Motiv > Englische Literatur.
Emotion > Motiv > Englische Literatur.
Freundschaft > Motiv
Self in literature.
Rhetoric.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Friendship in literature.
English literature > Early modern.
Emotions in literature.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
literary criticism.
Rhetorique > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Rhetorique > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Discours litteraire.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Rhetorique de la Renaissance.
Émotions dans la litterature.
Amitie dans la litterature.
Rhetoric > England > History > 17th century.
Rhetoric > England > History > 16th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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