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Autore: | Olmsted Wendy <1943-> |
Titolo: | The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts / / Wendy Olmsted |
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 |
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