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082	0	4	_a826.009/9287 _qOCoLC _223/eng/20231120
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
245	0	0	_aCultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain / _ced. by James Daybell, Andrew Gordon.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a1 online resource (336 p.) : _b36 illus.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aMaterial Texts
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tList of Abbreviations and Conventions -- _tIntroduction. The Early Modern Letter Opener -- _tPART I. MATERIAL PRACTICES -- _tChapter 1. From Palatino to Cresci -- _tChapter 2. Conveying Correspondence -- _tPART II. TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGNS -- _tChapter 3. Enigmatic Cultures of Cryptology -- _tChapter 4. Material Fictions -- _tChapter 5. Allegory and Epistolarity -- _tPART III. GENRES AND RHETORICS -- _tChapter 6. Mixed Messages and Cicero Effects in the Herrick Family Letters of the Sixteenth Century -- _tChapter 7. John Stubbs’s Left- Handed Letters -- _tChapter 8. “An Uncivill Scurrilous Letter” -- _tPART IV. THE AFTERLIVES OF LETTERS -- _tChapter 9. “Burn This Letter”: Preservation and Destruction in the Early Modern Archive -- _tChapter 10. Gendered Archival Practices and the Future Lives of Letters -- _tChapter 11. Familiar Letters and State Papers -- _tNotes -- _tSelect Bibliography -- _tContributors -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThe 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. The chapters here also explore the travels of the letter, uncovering the many means through which correspondence reached a reader and the ways in which the delivery of letters preoccupied contemporaries. At the same time, they reveal how other practices, such as the use of cipher and the designs of forgery, threatened to subvert the surveillance and reading of letters.The anxiety of early modern letter writers over the vulnerability of correspondence is testament to the deep dependence of the culture on the letter. Beyond the letter as a material object, Cultures of Correspondence sheds light on textual habits. Individual chapters study the language of letter writers to reveal that what appears to be a personal and unvarnished expression of the writer's thought is in fact a deliberate, skillful exercise in managing the conventions and expectations of the form. If letters were a prominent and ingrained part of the cultural life of the early modern period, they also enjoyed textual and archival afterlives whose stories are rarely told. Too often studied only in the case of figures already celebrated for their historical or literary significance, the letter in Cultures of Correspondence emerges as the most vital and wide-ranging material, textual form of the early modern period.Contributors: Nadine Akkerman, Mark Brayshay, Christopher Burlinson, James Daybell, Jonathan Gibson, Andrew Gordon, Arnold Hunt, Lynne Magnusson, Michelle O'Callaghan, Alan Stewart, Andrew Zurcher.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650		0	_aEnglish letters _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish prose literature _yEarly modern, 1500-1700 _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLetter writing _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
653			_aCultural Studies.
653			_aLiterature.
700	1		_aAkkerman, Nadine _eautore
700	1		_aBrayshay, Mark _eautore
700	1		_aBurlinson, Christopher _eautore
700	1		_aDaybell, James _eautore _ecuratore
700	1		_aGibson, Jonathan _eautore
700	1		_aGordon, Andrew _eautore _ecuratore
700	1		_aHunt, Arnold _eautore
700	1		_aMagnusson, Lynne _eautore
700	1		_aO’Callaghan, Michelle _eautore
700	1		_aStewart, Alan _eautore
700	1		_aZurcher, Andrew _eautore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292930
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812292930
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812292930/original
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