Friendship and Its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780198790792
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700; Friendship in literature
Description: Cedric C. Brown presents an account of the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental, and sees these practices as often coterminous with gift exchange.