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

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

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Author / Creator:	Anderson, Penelope.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.
Description:	xii, 291 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Subject:	Friendship in literature. Betrayal in literature. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Female friendship -- England -- History -- 17th century. Women -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. Betrayal in literature. English literature -- Early modern. English literature -- Women authors. Female friendship. Friendship in literature. Women -- Intellectual life. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8945976

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ISBN:	0748655824 9780748655823
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-281) and index.
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].

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