Transformations of Love The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin

"Harris displays a sensitivity to the intensities and ambiguities of religiously inflected, heterosexual friendship, but refuses to reduce everything to sex and power. Hers is surely the definitive account....TRANSFORMATIONS OF LOVE throws a searchlight on late seventeenth-century ideas, religion, gardens, court culture, sexual morality, femininity and masculinity. Above all, it offers a triumphantly subtle analysis of heterosexual relationships, which vividly recreates a structure of feeling very different from our own."Harris, Frances is the author of 'Transformations of Love The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin', published 2003 under ISBN 9780199252572 and ISBN 0199252572.