Friendship and allegiance in eighteenth-century literature :
[Book]
the politics of private virtue in the age of Walpole
Emrys Jones.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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.
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.
Allegiance in literature.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.