Title Friendship and its discourses in the seventeenth century / Cedric C. Brown

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 231 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : Explorations of the friendship spectrum -- John Evelyn and Jeremy Taylor -- John Evelyn and Elizabeth Carey/Mordaunt -- Milton's younger years, humanist identities, Diodati, and Italy -- Polemics, blindness, Cyriac Skinner, and meditations on friendship -- Mature reflections, Paradist lost, and Samson agonistes -- Dorothy Osborne, sociability, and the laws of friendship -- Temple-Arlington and Evelyn-Arlington : client -- patron -- friendships at court -- Endings and counter-discourses -- Conclusions : The spectrum of friendship -- Appendix : Jeremy Taylor's ten laws of friendship Summary Cedric C. Brown presents an 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 coterminous with gift exchange.--Dust jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Friendship in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Early modern Friendship in literature Genre/Form Electronic book Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191833434 0191833436 9780192508126 0192508121

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