Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain 1st Edition by James Daybell; Andrew Gordon 0812248252 9780812248258

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• ISBN 10:0812248252
• ISBN 13:9780812248258
• Author:James Daybell, Andrew Gordon

The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to uncover the habits, forms, and secrets of letter writing. Where material features of the letter have often been ignored by past generations fixated on the text alone, contributors to this volume examine how such elements as handwriting, seals, ink, and the arrangement of words on the manuscript page were significant carriers of meaning alongside epistolary rhetorics.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. From Palatino to Cresci: Italian Writing Books and the Italic Scripts of Early Modern Eng
Chapter 2. Conveying Correspondence: Early Modern Letter Bearers, Carriers, and Posts
Chapter 3. Enigmatic Cultures of Cryptology
Chapter 4. Material Fictions: Counterfeit Correspondence and the Culture of Copying in Early Modern
Chapter 5. Allegory and Epistolarity: Cipher and Faction in Sidney and Spenser
Chapter 6. Mixed Messages and Cicero Effects in the Herrick Family Letters of the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 7. John Stubbs’s Left-Handed Letters
Chapter 8. “An Uncivill Scurrilous Letter”: “Womanish Brabb[l]es” and the Letter of Affront
Chapter 9. “Burn This Letter”: Preservation and Destruction in the Early Modern Archive
Chapter 10. Gendered Archival Practices and the Future Lives of Letters
Chapter 11. Familiar Letters and State Papers: The Afterlives of Early Mode

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