Discovering Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship
Title
Discovering Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship
Subtitle
A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Romance
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€ 129,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789048563104
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
248
Language
English
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Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 – Jean R. Brink, Introduction to Bridget Manningham: Contains a description of the manuscript, Rivall Friendship, its acquisition by the Newberry Library, and a biography of Bridget Manningham.
Chapter 2 – Elly van Gelderen, The Dating of Rivall Friendship: Archaic and Modern Syntax.
Chapter 3 – Mary Ellen Lamb, Literary Contexts of Rivall Friendship.
Chapter 4 – Rahel Orgis, Narrative Rhythm and Genre in Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship.
Chapter 5 – William Gentrup, Rivall FriendshipChapter 6 – Mihoko Suzuki, Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendshipand the Discourses of Friendship, Classical and Early Modern.
Chapter 7 – Jean R. Brink, The Intersection of Class and Gender in Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship.
Chapter 8 –Joel B. Davis, All my Spirits ceaz’d : Interest and Judgment in Rivall Friendship.
Chapter 9 – Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Rivall Friendship and the Romance of the Royal.
Chapter 10 – Emily Griffiths-Jones, Passive Obedience and the Problem of Tyranny in Rivall Friendship.
Afterword – Paul Salzman
Biographies of Contributors

Jean Brink (ed.)

Discovering Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship

A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Romance

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.
Editor

Jean Brink

Jean R Brink is a Research Scholar at the Huntington Library and an Emeritus Professor in Renaissance at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Author of The Early Spenser (Manchester University Press, 2019), she was the founding director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.