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The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts / Wendy Olmsted.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442688315
  • 1442688319
  • 9781442691254
  • 1442691255
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imperfect friend.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/353 22
  • 821/.3 22
LOC classification:
  • PR428.E56 O66 2008
  • PN56.F74 O46 2008
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Contents:
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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Summary: 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.
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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.

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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.

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