TY - BOOK AU - Olmsted,Wendy TI - The imperfect friend: emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts SN - 9781442688315 AV - PR428.E56 O66 2008 U1 - 820.9/353 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Toronto, Buffalo PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Sidney, Philip, KW - Milton, John, KW - Milton, John KW - Sidney, Philip KW - Sidney, Philip. KW - Milton, John. KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Emotions in literature KW - Self in literature KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Friendship in literature KW - Discourse analysis, Literary KW - Rhetoric KW - England KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - Amitié dans la littérature KW - Émotions dans la littérature KW - Rhétorique de la Renaissance KW - Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature KW - Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature KW - Discours littéraire KW - Rhétorique KW - Angleterre KW - Histoire KW - 16e siècle KW - 17e siècle KW - literary criticism KW - aat KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Early modern KW - Freundschaft KW - Motiv KW - gnd KW - Emotion KW - Englische Literatur KW - idsbb KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-271) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=468850 ER -