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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780748655830
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Friendship's ShadowsDDC classification:
  • 820.9004
LOC classification:
  • PR431 -- .A64 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER -- Copyright -- 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, find 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: The first sustained investigation of early modern women's friendship. 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.
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COVER -- Copyright -- 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, find 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.

The first sustained investigation of early modern women's friendship. 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.

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