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Article: The culture of early modern friendship.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- December 22, 2005
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The editors are grateful for the assistance of Doug Bruster, Alison Frazier, Wayne Rebhorn, Michael Stapleton, Madeline Sutherland-Meier, and Lisa Moore.
This special issue of TSLL revises our understanding of early modern literary culture by examining its preoccupation with friendship. Foregrounding Petrarch's devotion to friendship in the years following the outbreak of the Black Death, Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski complicates the traditional view of him as the paradigm of Renaissance individualism. Amid the desolation of post-plague Italy, she argues, Petrarch defined the conventions and values of humanist friendship for later generations. Jason Harris draws ...