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Harris Frances |
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Titolo |
Transformations of love [[electronic resource] ] : the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin / / Frances Harris |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-03923-2 |
1-280-75926-7 |
0-19-151441-1 |
1-4294-5692-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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828/.403 |
942.06092 |
942.060922 |
942.0660922 |
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Soggetti |
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Diarists - Great Britain |
Women - Great Britain |
Great Britain Court and courtiers History 17th century |
England Social life and customs 17th century |
Great Britain Court and courtiers Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-324) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue; 1 The Garden and the River; 2 Man of the Shade; 3 Nuptial Love; 4 Courtly Love; 5 Conversion; 6 Seraphick Love; 7 The Serpent in the Garden; 8 The Marriage Masque; 9 Godly Housekeeping; Epilogue; Appendix A: Note on Sources; Appendix B: W. G. Hiscock, John Evelyn, and Margaret Godolphin; Select Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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John Evelyn ranks with his friend Samuel Pepys as one of the best loved of English diarists. He was a virtuoso: a man of letters and of science, highly intellectual and devoutly spiritual. This is an absorbing new study of the most controversial episode of his life: his passionate 'seraphic' friendship with Margaret Godolphin, a maid of honour at the Restoration court of Charles II. Was Evelyn in his way as much a sexual |
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