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Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature Emrys Jones

Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature By Emrys Jones

Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Emrys Jones

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Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.

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Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole by Emrys Jones

Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.

About Emrys Jones

Emrys D. Jones lectures on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature at the University of Greenwich, UK. He studied at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. His publications include articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Medical Humanities.

Table of Contents

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

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NPB9781137300492
9781137300492
1137300493
Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole by Emrys Jones
Emrys Jones
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-06-13
222
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