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Friendship's Shadows: Women's Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture) by Penelope Anderson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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- Author
- Penelope Anderson
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299105584
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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