Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

Description:

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations. It lays the groundwork for a taxonomy of the transformations of friendship discourse in Western Europe and its overlap with emergent views of the psyche and the body, as well as of the relationship of the self to others, classes, social institutions and the state.

subjects: Friendship in literature,  History and criticism,  European literature,  Literature, history and criticism,  Littérature européenne,  Histoire et critique,  Amitié dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  Gay & Lesbian,  Renaissance,  European literature--history and criticism,  European literature--renaissance, 1450-1600--history and criticism,  European literature--17th century--history and criticism,  Pn721 .d57 2011,  809/.93353

Times: Renaissance, 1450-1600,  17th century