1st Edition
Discovering Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Romance
Edited By Jean Brink
Copyright 2025
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction to Bridget Manningham, Chapter 2 The Dating of Rivall Friendship: Archaic and Modern Syntax, Chapter 3 Literary Contexts of Rivall Friendship, Chapter 4 Narrative Rhythm and Genre in Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship, Chapter 5 Rivall Friendship, Chapter 6 Rivall Friendshipand the Discourses of Friendship, Classical and Early Modern, Chapter 7 The Intersection of Class and Gender in Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship, Chapter 8 All my Spirits ceaz’d : Interest and Judgment in Rivall Friendship, Chapter 9 Rivall Friendship and the Romance of the Royal, Chapter 10 Passive Obedience and the Problem of Tyranny in Rivall Friendship, Afterword – Paul Salzman, Biographies of Contributors
Biography
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.
