Friendship's Shadows: Women's Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705

Penelope Anderson

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2012

Friendship's Shadows

Women's Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705

Penelope Anderson

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748655830

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P>Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanist friendship, showing its surprising resilience as a model for political obligation undone and remade. Incorporating authors from Cicero to Abraham Cowley and Margaret Cavendish to Mary Astell, the book focuses on two extraordinary women writers, the royalist Katherine Philips and the republican Lucy Hutchinson. And it explores the ways in which they appropriate the friendship tradition in order to address problems of conflicting allegiances in the English Civil Wars and Restoration. As Penelope Anderson suggests, their writings on friendship provide a new account of women's relation to public life, organized through textual exchange rather than bodily reproduction.

Key Features

Studies early modern women's friendship in depth for the first time
Offers an account of the classical and humanist discourse of friendship by revealing the centrality of betrayal to the Aristotelian, Ciceronian, and Epicurean traditions
Intervenes within recent feminist and queer theory by showing textual friendship to be an alternative account of women's relation to public life
Articulates the links between women's literary writing and political theories such as contract theory, natural sociability, and patriarchalism
Contributes to the growing interest in early modern women's writing, drawing on extensive archival materials and texts

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: Friendship, Gender, Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Friendship and Betrayal
1 Indemnity for Enemies, Oblivion for Friends: Changing Political Allegiances in the English Civil Wars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2 “Obligation here is injury”: Exemplary Friendship in Katherine Philips’s Coterie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
3 The Garden of Epicurus and the Garden of Eden: Friendship’s Counsel in De rerum natura and Order and Disorder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Part II: The Rewritten Legacy
4 “Women, like princes, fi nd no real friends”: The Manuscript Tradition and Katherine Philips’s Reputation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
5 Honoring Friendship’s Shadows: Marriage and Political Reputation in Lucy Hutchinson’s Writings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
6 Covert Politics and Separatist Women’s Friendship: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: August 6, 2012
ISBN: 9780748655830