Friendship's shadows : women's friendship and the politics of betrayal in England, 1640-1705

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Label

Friendship's shadows : women's friendship and the politics of betrayal in England, 1640-1705

Title remainder

women's friendship and the politics of betrayal in England, 1640-1705

Statement of responsibility

Penelope Anderson

Creator

• Anderson, Penelope

Contributor

• JSTOR

Provider

• JSTOR

Subject

• Betrayal in literature
• Betrayal in literature
• Electronic resources
• England
• English literature -- Early modern
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 | History and criticism
• English literature -- Women authors
• English literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Female friendship
• Female friendship -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Friendship in literature
• Friendship in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Women -- Intellectual life
• Women -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
• 1500-1700

Language

eng

Summary

"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." [Publisher's description]

Member of

• Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture

Cataloging source

N$T

Index

index present

LC call number

PR431

LC item number

.A64 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture