Epistolary community in print, 1580-1664 /

"Focusing on six examples of printed letters from the period, in this study Diana Barnes develops a genealogy of epistolary discourse in early modern England. She considers how the examples-from the writings of Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spencer, Angel Day, Michael Drayton, Jacques du Bosque and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnes, Diana G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surry, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2013]
Colección:Material readings in early modern culture.
Temas:
1500-1700
English letters > History and criticism.
English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Letter writing > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Letter writing > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Lettres anglaises (Genre littéraire) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Letters.
English letters
English prose literature > Early modern
Letter writing
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Members of the kingdom of letters
  • Angel Day's rhetoric for "any learner" in The English secretary
  • Feminine poetical letters: Michael Drayton's England's heroicall epistles
  • Letters of feminine friendship at the court of Henrietta Maria: Jacques du Bosque's The Secretary of ladies (1638)
  • Epistolary battles in the English Civil War: The Kings cabinet opened (1645)
  • Epistolary restoration: Margaret Cavendish's letters. Restoring epistolary decorum ; Exemplary sociability ; The civilities of epistolary philosophy
  • Conclusion: New republics of letters.

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