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Introduction: the emergence of discourses: early modern friendship / Daniel Lochman and Maritere López -- Part I. Conventional discourses re-imagined. Bound by likeness: Vives and Erasmus on marriage and friendship / Constance M. Furey; Triangulating humanist friendship: More, Gile, Erasmus and the making of the Utopia / Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski; Friendship's passion: love-fellowship in Sidney's New Arcadia / Daniel Lochman -- Part II. Alternative discourses. Friendship in the margins: Guzmán de Alfarache's "other self": the limits of friendship in Spanish picaresque fiction / Donald Gilbert-Santamaría; The courtesan's gift: reciprocity and friendship in the letters of Camilla Pisana and Tullia D'Aragona / Maritere López; The 'single lyfe' of Isabella Whitney: love, friendship and the single woman writer / Allison Johnson; 'Friendship multiplyed': Royalist and Republican friendship in Katherine Philips's Coterie / Penelope Anderson -- Part III. Friendship in ethics and politics. From civic friendship to communities of believers: Anabaptist challenges to Lutheran and Calvinist discourses / Thomas Heilke; The friendship of the wicked in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron / Marc D. Schachter; "To plainness is honour bound": disguises of friendship in King Lear / Wendy Olmstead; 'My foule, faulce brest': friendship and betrayal in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Sheila T. Cavanagh; Politics and friendship in William Cartwright's The Lady-Errant / Christopher Marlow; Milton against servitude: classical friendship, tyranny, and the law of nature / Gregory Chaplin. |
