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

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.

List 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: E. Jones, Emrys Jones
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349453122
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45312-2
• No. of pages: 231
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern