Friendship's Shadows - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture) by Penelope Anderson (Hardcover)

About the Book

The first sustained investigation of early modern women's friendship. Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after.

Book Synopsis

The first sustained investigation of early modern women's friendship. Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after.

Review Quotes

'Friendship's Shadows, particularly in its careful attention to the 'rewritings' of female tradition in Part Two, begins the necessary and still incomplete task of recovering women's contributions to our political and cultural heritage.'--Lara Dodds, Mississippi State University "Review of English Studies"

Friendship's Shadows opens up new avenues for understanding both the civic and intimate lives of early modern persons, as well as the cultural formations that undergird our own postmodern discourses of the relative inconsequence of female friendship vis à vis marriage.--Professor Harriette Andreadis "Texas A&M University"

Smart, thoughtful, and filled with myriad insights into how complex and contradictory allegiances can be promoted and sabotaged at one and the same moment.--Megan Matchinske University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal"

This deeply researched, important book highlights further neglected subtleties of early modern women's writing.--JOHANNA HARRIS, University of Exeter "Renaissance Quarterly, 68.4"

About the Author

Penelope Anderson is Assistant Professor at the Indiana University