TY - GEN N2 - Cedric C. Brown presents an account of the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental, and sees these practices as often coterminous with gift exchange. AB - Cedric C. Brown presents an account of the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental, and sees these practices as often coterminous with gift exchange. T1 - Friendship and its discourses in the seventeenth century / AU - Brown, Cedric C. ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PR408 ID - 798871 KW - English literature KW - Friendship in literature. SN - 9780191833434 TI - Friendship and its discourses in the seventeenth century / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198790792.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198790792.001.0001 ER -