Fe/Male Friends: Staging Gender and Friendship in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature

Although the traditions of philia and amicitia proclaim friendship as a universal concept, it has been an androcentric model until the emergence of the female friend in the Age of Enlightenment. This book analyzes the discursive turn from premodern to modern gendered constructions of friends in Spanish literature and sheds light on specific models of male, female, and mixed relationships in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century. Our approach reveals the gendering of male friendship throug...