Title The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts / Wendy Olmsted

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-271) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 -- Criticism and interpretation Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 fast Milton, John -- Motiv -- Freundschaft. idsbb Milton, John -- Motiv -- Emotion. idsbb Sidney, Philip -- Motiv -- Freundschaft. idsbb Sidney, Philip -- Motiv -- Emotion. idsbb Sidney, Philip. swd Milton, John. swd Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Emotions in literature. Self in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Friendship in literature. Discourse analysis, Literary. Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 16th century Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 17th century Rhetoric, Renaissance. literary criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Discourse analysis, Literary Emotions in literature English literature -- Early modern Friendship in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Rhetoric Self in literature Freundschaft Motiv Emotion -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur. Freundschaft -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur. Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Emotion. Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Freundschaft. England Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2008275052 ISBN 9781442688315 1442688319 9781442691254 1442691255

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