Friendship and allegiance in eighteenth-century literature :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the politics of private virtue in the age of Walpole
First Statement of Responsibility
Emrys Jones.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Allegiance in literature.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.