Cedric C. Brown presents a fresh account of 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.
Cedric C. Brown presents a fresh account of 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.
Cedric C. Brown is a former Professor of English at the University of Reading, Dean of the Faculty, and external Professorial Research Consultant. A specialist in seventeenth-century literature, he is well known internationally as a Miltonist. He is also an archival scholar and a student of social communications, like letters, and the materialities of gift exchange. Recent work has extended to provincial Jesuit miscellanies, but the major project has been the discourses of friendship, mainly studied in lived rather than fictional situations. He is also founder general editor of the large, long-running book series Early Modern Literature in History.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction: explorations of the friendship spectrum * Section I: John Evelyn, Jeremy Taylor and Elizabeth Carey: friendship, religion and 'the material intercourses of our life' * 2: John Evelyn and Jeremy Taylor * 3: John Evelyn and Elizabeth Carey/Mordaunt * Section II: Milton, Friendship, and Reader-Friends * 4: Milton's younger years, humanist identities, Diodati, and Italy * 5: Polemics, Blindness, Cyriac Skinner, and meditations on friendship * 6: Mature reflections, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes * Section III: Dorothy Osborne, William Temple, Lord Arlington, and others: friendship in private and politics * 7: Dorothy Osborne, sociability, and the laws of friendship * 8: Temple-Arlington and Evelyn-Arlington: client-patron friendships at court * 9: Endings and Counter-discourses * 10: Conclusions: the spectrum of friendship * Appendix: Jeremy Taylor's ten laws of friendship * Select Bibliography * Index
* 1: Introduction: explorations of the friendship spectrum * Section I: John Evelyn, Jeremy Taylor and Elizabeth Carey: friendship, religion and 'the material intercourses of our life' * 2: John Evelyn and Jeremy Taylor * 3: John Evelyn and Elizabeth Carey/Mordaunt * Section II: Milton, Friendship, and Reader-Friends * 4: Milton's younger years, humanist identities, Diodati, and Italy * 5: Polemics, Blindness, Cyriac Skinner, and meditations on friendship * 6: Mature reflections, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes * Section III: Dorothy Osborne, William Temple, Lord Arlington, and others: friendship in private and politics * 7: Dorothy Osborne, sociability, and the laws of friendship * 8: Temple-Arlington and Evelyn-Arlington: client-patron friendships at court * 9: Endings and Counter-discourses * 10: Conclusions: the spectrum of friendship * Appendix: Jeremy Taylor's ten laws of friendship * Select Bibliography * Index
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