Friendship and Its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century by Brown, Cedric C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Friendship and its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century Copyright Acknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1: Introduction: Explorations of the Friendship Spectrum

Part I: John Evelyn, Jeremy Taylor, and Elizabeth Carey

2: John Evelyn and Jeremy Taylor

2.1 Introduction 2.2 `Tokens´ of Friendship 2.3 Taylor´s Discourse Revisited: Substance and Worth

3: John Evelyn and Elizabeth Carey/Mordaunt

3.1 Penthea, Electra, and `the Mutual Love of God´ 3.2 Penthea´s Objects 3.3 The Loyal and Celebrated Mrs Mordaunt 3.4 The Friendship with Elizabeth in the Restoration Years 3.5 Conclusions: Religious Friendship and Practical Service

Part II: Milton, Friendship, and Reader-Friends

4: Milton´s Younger Years, Humanist Identities, Diodati, and Italy

5: Polemics, Blindness, Cyriac Skinner, and Meditations on Friendship

6: Mature Reflections, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes

6.1 From Reader-Friends to General Readers 6.2 From Visits Out to Visits In 6.3 Visitations and Friends in Paradise Lost 6.4 Visits and Friends in Samson Agonistes 6.5 Conclusion: The Intellectualizing Individualist

Part III: Dorothy Osborne, William Temple, Lord Arlington, and Others

7: Dorothy Osborne, Sociability, and the Laws of Friendship

8: Temple-Arlington and Evelyn-Arlington: Client-Patron Friendships at Court

9: Endings and Counter-Discourses

10: Conclusions: The Spectrum of Friendship

10.1 Vulnerabilities and Sociability 10.2 Exclusivities and Control 10.3 The Texts of Katherine Philips as a Compendium of Friendship Practices 10.4 Friendship Beyond Death

APPENDIX: Jeremy Taylor’s Ten Laws of Friendship Select Bibliography

LIST OF CHIEF MANUSCRIPT SOURCES CONSULTED

British Library National Archives Bodleian Library Cambridge University Library National Library of Wales Lincolnshire Archives Hull History Centre Staffordshire Archives Harvard Library Princeton University Library Historical Society of Pennsylvania University of Northern Illinois

PRINTED AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

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