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The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts

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
eBook, English, ©2008
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ©2008
Electronic books
1 online resource (x, 293 pages)
9781442688315, 9781442691254, 1442688319, 1442691255
657975431
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
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