Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… utilities. Probing the association between enmity and friendship opens up discussion about the tensions inherent in the sociability described, performed, and enacted during this period. Concepts > Antagonism & Resistance Mots-clés Antagonism … [...] are let fly abroad to become the Entertainment and Laughter of the World’. 12 Eighteenth-century conceptions of sociability, which regarded female relationships as particularly emotionally interested and affectionate, provided … Pompadour (London, 1750), p. 61. Enmity, then, was intimately linked to friendship and eighteenth-century practices of sociability. They were so closely connected, in fact, that the potential for friendship to become an enmity was a …
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