UID:
almafu_9959238791402883
Format:
1 online resource (306 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4426-9125-5
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1-4426-8831-9
Content:
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.
Note:
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.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-9136-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442688315
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