Friendship : a history /
"The meaning and importance of friendship have become questions of increasing interest in recent years, as declining rates of marriage and parenthood have made the family less central and friends more so in the lives of many people, particularly in the western world. Yet the history of friendsh...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Oakville, Conn. :
Equinox Publishing,
2009.
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| Series: | Critical histories of subjectivity and culture.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- The classical ideals of friendship / Dirk Baltzly and Nick Eliopoulos
- Cicero on friendship / Constant J. Mews
- The Latin West / Constant J. Mews and Neville Chiavaroli
- Renaissance friendships : traditional truths, new and dissenting voices / Carolyn James and Bill Kent
- From Christian friendship to secular sentimentality : enlightenment re-evaluations / David Garrioch
- Taking up the pen : women and the writing of friendship / Barbara Caine
- Class, sex, and friendship : the long nineteenth century / Marc Brodie and Barbara Caine
- New worlds of friendship : the early 20th century / Mark Peel
- The importance of friends : the most recent past / Mark Peel, with Liz Reed and James Walter.