Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Analyzing authors, their professional circumstances, and their audiences, the study shows how the rhetoric of friendship became a means of paying deference to the increasing power of readerships, while it also served as a semi-covert means to persuade resistant readers and confront aesthetic and moral debates head on.

Analizand autorii, circumstantele lor profesionale si publicul lor, studiul arata cum retorica prieteniei a devenit un mijloc de a respecta puterea crescanda a cititorilor, in timp ce a servit si ca mijloc semi-ascuns pentru a convinge cititorii rezistenti si a confrunta cu aspectele estetice si dezbateri morale in fata.