Amiable fictions: virtual friendship and the English novel
This dissertation argues that friendship operates in mid-eighteenth-century English fiction as a privileged category of virtue, knowledge, and aesthetic value. By representing social tensions raised by extra-familial friendships and appealing to readers as friends, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding,...
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University of Iowa
2013
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5563 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7043&context=etd |