Fictions of friendship in the eighteenth-century novel
Auteur :
Mangano, Bryan
Éditeur :
Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN :
9783319486949
Date de publication :
31 juil. 2017
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
Analyzing authors, their professional circumstances, and their audiences, the study shows how the rhetoric of friendship became a means of paying deference to the increasing power of readerships, while it also served as a semi-covert means to persuade resistant readers and confront aesthetic and moral debates head on.