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Article: Nicholas Oldisworth, Richard Bacon, and the practices of Caroline friendship.
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- December 22, 2005
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Sed quoniam res humanae fragiles caducaeque sunt, semper aliqui
anquirendi sunt quos diligamus et a quibus diligamur; caritate enim
benevolentiaque sublata omnis est e vita sublata iucunditas.
Cicero, De Amicitia. xxvii.102 (1)
Almost as much as religion, friendship has become a scandal, a stumbling block, a site of occlusion, in the reading and study of early modern literature. A fundamentally secular age elides the spiritual presuppositions of early modern life, while a simultaneously embarrassed and prurient age fixated by corporeal sexuality fails to register the presence of a constitutive way of life whose practices, sustained by classical ...