Friendship and its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 November 2016
- ISBN 9780198790792
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 221x144x19 mm
- Weight 418 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Cedric C. Brown presents a fresh 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 co-terminous with gift exchange.
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Cedric C. Brown combines the study of literature and social history in order to recognize 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 co-terminous with gift exchange. Failure to recognize the inter-connected range of a friendship spectrum has hitherto limited the adequacy of some modern studies of friendship, often weighted towards the intimate or gendered-related issues. This book focusses both on friendships represented in imaginative works and on lived friendships in many textual and material forms, in an attempt to recognize cultural environments and functions.
In order to provide depth and coherence, case histories have been selected from the middle and later parts of the seventeenth century. Nevertheless many kinds of bond are recognized, as between patron and client, mentor and pupil, within the family, within marriage, in courtship, or according to fashionable refined friendship theory. Both humanist and religious values systems are registered, and friendships are configured in cross-gendered and same-sex relationships. Theories of friendship are also included. Apart from written documents, the range of 'texts' extends to keepsakes, pictures, funerary monument and memorial garden features. Figures discussed at length include Henry More and the Finch/Conway family, John Evelyn, Jeremy Taylor, Elizabeth Carey/Mordaunt, John Milton, Charles Diodati, Cyriac Skinner, Dorothy Osborne/Temple, William Temple, Lord Arlington, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, and Katherine Phillips and her circle, especially Anne Owen/Trevor and Sir Charles Cotterell.
This investigation reveals how the discourse of friendship functions in an array of seventeenth-century social relationships in a way that no other study does. It is a profoundly useful guide to an elusive and perilously expansive subject.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: explorations of the friendship spectrum
Section I: John Evelyn, Jeremy Taylor and Elizabeth Carey: friendship, religion and 'the material intercourses of our life'
John Evelyn and Jeremy Taylor
John Evelyn and Elizabeth Carey/Mordaunt
Section II: Milton, Friendship, and Reader-Friends
Milton's younger years, humanist identities, Diodati, and Italy
Polemics, Blindness, Cyriac Skinner, and meditations on friendship
Mature reflections, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes
Section III: Dorothy Osborne, William Temple, Lord Arlington, and others: friendship in private and politics
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
Select Bibliography
Index
