Friendship [ Social interaction / Character / Feelings & Emotions ]
… Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 259-269. While some of the tensions and contradictions that surrounded the portrayal of friendship … he argued that perfect friendship could only subsist between a limited number of people. 2 The same idea had been expressed in the sixteenth century by Michel de Montaigne, who argued that true friendship, as opposed to general … both the form and narrative of Richardson’s seminal novel, naturally differed greatly in its benefits and its means of expression from that between Johnson and Boswell. Ultimately, the most remarkable fact about friendship in …
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