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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-271) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 821/.3
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442688315 9780802091369
- LCCN
- PN56.F74
- LCCN Item number
- O55 2007eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 293 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00224295 (OCoLC)657975431 (CaOOCEL)430794
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Notes on Transcriptions 12
- 1 Counselling the Unstable Self: Conflicting Emotional Frameworks, Persuasion, and Inwardness 16
- 2 Unyielding Judge or Gentle Physician? The Friend as Counsellor in Guazzo's The Civile Conversation and Sidney's Old Arcadia 33
- 3 Poetry as Orator and Physician in Sidney's Defence 67
- 4 The Politics of Emotion in Hospitality, Rivalry, and Erotic Love: Sidney's New Arcadia 89
- 5 Anger as an Instrument of Justice: The Vehement versus the Mild Style in Milton's Early Prose 119
- 6 Emotion as Defined by the Discourse of Honour: Spiritual Warfare and Rhetorical Agon in Paradise Lost 141
- 7 Seventeenth-Century Protestant Rhetoric: Cause and Cure of Fallen Emotion 159
- 8 Marriage as a Site of Counsel in Marriage Handbooks, Milton's Divorce Pamphlets, and Paradise Lost 188
- Conclusion 222
- Notes 230
