Friendship
Subtitle: a history
By: edited by Barbara Caine.
Contributors: Caine, Barbara.
Series: Critical histories of subjectivity and culture
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781845531966; 9781845531973
Subjects: Friendship -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The classical ideals of friendship; title: Cicero on friendship; title: The Latin West; title: Renaissance friendships : traditional truths, new and dissenting voices; title: From Christian friendship to secular sentimentality : enlightenment re-evaluations; title: Taking up the pen : women and the writing of friendship; title: Class, sex, and friendship : the long nineteenth century; title: New worlds of friendship : the early 20th century; title: The importance of friends : the most recent past.