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Cultures of correspondence in early modern Britain /
In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from different disciplinary perspectives to illuminate its workings. Contributors to this volume examine how elements, such as handwriting, seals, ink, and use of space, were vitally significant to how letters...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2016.
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| Series: | Material texts.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The early modern letter opener / James Daybell and Andrew Gordon
- part 1. Material practices. From Palatino to Cresci: Italian writing books and the Italic scripts of early modern English letters / Jonathan Gibson
- Conveying correspondence: early modern letter bearers, carriers, and posts / Mark Brayshay
- part 2. Technologies and designs. Enigmatic cultures of cryptology / Nadine Akkerman
- Material fictions: counterfeit correspondence and the culture of copying in early modern England / Andrew Gordon
- Allegory and epistolarity: cipher and faction in Sidney and Spenser / Andrew Zurcher
- part 3. Genres and rhetorics. Mixed messages and Cicero effects in the Herrick Family letters of the sixteenth century / Lynne Magnusson
- John Stubb's left-handed letters / Christopher Burlinson
- "An uncivill scurrilous letter": "Womanish Brabb[l]es" and the letter of affront / Michelle O'Callaghan
- part 4. The afterlives of letters. "Burn this letter": preservation and destruction in the early modern archive / Arnold Hunt
- Gendered archival practices and the future lives of letters / James Daybell
- Familiar letters and state papers: the afterlives of early modern correspondence / Alan Stewart
- Notes.