 | The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and Their Conexts Subjects: Sidney Philip Sir 1554–1586 -- Criticism and interpretation; Milton John 1608–1674 -- Criticism and interpretation; Friendship in literature; Rhetoric Renaissance; The Imperfect Friend sheds new light on how the writings of Sidney, Milton, and others grappled with problems of personal identity. From their innovations, the study concludes, friendship emerges as a favourite site of counseling the afflicted and perturbed. Olmsted Wendy : Wendy Olmsted is a professor in the New Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. |
