Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature - 9781349453122

Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century LiteratureThe Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole\nAuthor(s): Emrys Jones\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9781349453122, 978-1349453122\nSynopsis\nFriendship 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.