
Discovering Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship
A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Romance
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Discovering Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship
A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Romance
About this book
This collection of essays represents the very first effort to assess the importance of Bridget Manningham's Rivall Friendship, a seventeenth-century manuscript that concerns the English Civil War, surviving in only one copy at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. Bridget Manningham is introduced as the granddaughter of the sixteenth-century diarist John Manningham and as the older sister of Thomas Manningham who was Bishop of Chichester in the early eighteenth century. These essays offer definitive analyses of such early modern issues as the intersection of gender and class, linguistic features of early modern syntax, rhetorical defenses of the royalist position, theories of early modern friendship, plot construction and narrative strategies, and the transition from the romance to the novel.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction to Bridget Manningham
- 2. The dating of Rivall Friendship: archaic and modern syntax
- 3. Literary Contexts for Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship
- 4. Narrative Rhythm and Genre in Rivall Friendship
- 5. Rivall Friendship: Literary Genres, Conventions, Sources, and Glosses
- 6. Bridget Manningham's Rivall Friendship and the Discourses of Friendship, Classical and Early Modern
- 7. The Intersection of Class and Gender in Bridget Manningham's Rivall Friendship
- 8. “All my spirits ceaz'd”: Interest and Judgment in Rivall Friendship
- 9. Rivall Friendship and the Romance of the Royal
- 10. Passive Obedience and the Problem of Tyranny in Rivall Friendship
- Afterword
- Index