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Friendship's Shadows : Women's Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705 / Penelope Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748655823
  • 9780748655830
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9004 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Friendship, Gender, Politics -- Part I: Friendship and Betrayal -- 1 Indemnity for Enemies, Oblivion for Friends: Changing Political Allegiances in the English Civil Wars -- 2 “Obligation here is injury”: Exemplary Friendship in Katherine Philips’s Coterie -- 3 The Garden of Epicurus and the Garden of Eden: Friendship’s Counsel in De rerum natura and Order and Disorder -- Part II: The Rewritten Legacy -- 4 “Women, like princes, fi nd no real friends”: The Manuscript Tradition and Katherine Philips’s Reputation -- 5 Honoring Friendship’s Shadows: Marriage and Political Reputation in Lucy Hutchinson’s Writings -- 6 Covert Politics and Separatist Women’s Friendship: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748655830','ISBN:9780748655823','ISBN:9780748655847','ISBN:9780748655854','ISBN:9780748655847']);P›Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanist friendship, showing its surprising resilience as a model for political obligation undone and remade. Incorporating authors from Cicero to Abraham Cowley and Margaret Cavendish to Mary Astell, the book focuses on two extraordinary women writers, the royalist Katherine Philips and the republican Lucy Hutchinson. And it explores the ways in which they appropriate the friendship tradition in order to address problems of conflicting allegiances in the English Civil Wars and Restoration. As Penelope Anderson suggests, their writings on friendship provide a new account of women's relation to public life, organized through textual exchange rather than bodily reproduction. Key Features Studies early modern women's friendship in depth for the first timeOffers an account of the classical and humanist discourse of friendship by revealing the centrality of betrayal to the Aristotelian, Ciceronian, and Epicurean traditionsIntervenes within recent feminist and queer theory by showing textual friendship to be an alternative account of women's relation to public lifeArticulates the links between women's literary writing and political theories such as contract theory, natural sociability, and patriarchalismContributes to the growing interest in early modern women's writing, drawing on extensive archival materials and texts"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Friendship, Gender, Politics -- Part I: Friendship and Betrayal -- 1 Indemnity for Enemies, Oblivion for Friends: Changing Political Allegiances in the English Civil Wars -- 2 “Obligation here is injury”: Exemplary Friendship in Katherine Philips’s Coterie -- 3 The Garden of Epicurus and the Garden of Eden: Friendship’s Counsel in De rerum natura and Order and Disorder -- Part II: The Rewritten Legacy -- 4 “Women, like princes, fi nd no real friends”: The Manuscript Tradition and Katherine Philips’s Reputation -- 5 Honoring Friendship’s Shadows: Marriage and Political Reputation in Lucy Hutchinson’s Writings -- 6 Covert Politics and Separatist Women’s Friendship: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell -- Bibliography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748655830','ISBN:9780748655823','ISBN:9780748655847','ISBN:9780748655854','ISBN:9780748655847']);P›Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanist friendship, showing its surprising resilience as a model for political obligation undone and remade. Incorporating authors from Cicero to Abraham Cowley and Margaret Cavendish to Mary Astell, the book focuses on two extraordinary women writers, the royalist Katherine Philips and the republican Lucy Hutchinson. And it explores the ways in which they appropriate the friendship tradition in order to address problems of conflicting allegiances in the English Civil Wars and Restoration. As Penelope Anderson suggests, their writings on friendship provide a new account of women's relation to public life, organized through textual exchange rather than bodily reproduction. Key Features Studies early modern women's friendship in depth for the first timeOffers an account of the classical and humanist discourse of friendship by revealing the centrality of betrayal to the Aristotelian, Ciceronian, and Epicurean traditionsIntervenes within recent feminist and queer theory by showing textual friendship to be an alternative account of women's relation to public lifeArticulates the links between women's literary writing and political theories such as contract theory, natural sociability, and patriarchalismContributes to the growing interest in early modern women's writing, drawing on extensive archival materials and texts"

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