The Flower of Friendship: A Renaissance Dialogue Contesting Marriage

Edmund Tilney

ISBN 10: 0801497051 / ISBN 13: 9780801497056

Published by Cornell University Press, Itaca, New York., 1992

About this Item

Softcover 1992 edition. Text and covers in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. Remainder mark to bottom edge. (216 pages).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Flower of Friendship: A Renaissance Dialogue Contesting Marriage
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, Itaca, New York.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801497051
• ISBN 13: 9780801497056
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Edmund Tilney dedicated to Queen Elizabeth in 1568 a spirited dialogue concerning appropriate behavior in marriage. Extraordinarily popular for a generation following its first publication, it is available here for the first time in a critical edition that includes a comprehensive essay by Valerie Wayne.

Review

"As Wayne demonstrates in her introduction, The Flower of Friendship is a wonderfully witty dialogue treating a key issue in Tudor culture. Clearly, it is an important and revealing index to the ideology of Tudor England, a touchstone in discussions of gender relationships as they are fictionalized in Renaissance literature."

(Elizabeth H. Hageman, University of New Hampshire)

"The book is a delight to read, and the combination of critical edition and general introduction to the subject is an especially attractive one. Wayne offers a much-needed introduction to sixteenth-century ideologies of marriage, one that is meticulous, rigorous, and persuasive. She is the first to layout a carefully theorized reading of marriage treatises as a specific genre."

(Janis Butler Holm, Ohio University)