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The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts / / Wendy Olmsted



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