Friendship and allegiance in eighteenth-century literature : the politics of private virtue in the age of Walpole /
"The concept of friendship has long been central to the field of eighteenth-century literary studies, not least because it was presented by the era's own authors as an essential aspect of their literary identities. For writers like Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, being known as a good f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- PART I: FRIENDSHIP IN CRISIS
- 1. Scriblerian Friendship and Public Crisis
- 2. Daniel Defoe and South Sea Friendship
- 3. Lord Hervey and the Limits of Court Whig Pragmatism
- 4. The Friendly Opposition and Public Life in Pope's Bathurst
- 5. Friendship and the Patriot Prince
- PART II: FRIENDSHIP BY TROPE
- 6. Friendship and Fable
- 7. Friendship and Criminality
- 8. Epilogue: Friendship and Rural Retreat
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.