The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts / / Wendy Olmsted
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| Autore: |
Olmsted Wendy <1943->
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| Titolo: |
The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts / / Wendy Olmsted
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
| Emotions in literature | |
| Self in literature | |
| Identity (Psychology) in literature | |
| Friendship in literature | |
| Discourse analysis, Literary | |
| Rhetoric - England - History - 16th century | |
| Rhetoric - England - History - 17th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | England |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-271) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The imperfect friend |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9125-5 |
| 1-4426-8831-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808758203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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