Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain / / ed. by James Daybell, Andrew Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Akkerman, Nadine,; Brayshay, Mark,; Burlinson, Christopher,; Daybell, James,; Gibson, Jonathan,; Gordon, Andrew,; Hunt, Arnold,; Magnusson, Lynne,; O’Callaghan, Michelle,; Stewart, Alan,; Zurcher, Andrew,
• HerausgeberIn: Daybell, James,; Gordon, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Material Texts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 36 illus.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations and Conventions
• Introduction. The Early Modern Letter Opener
• PART I. MATERIAL PRACTICES
• Chapter 1. From Palatino to Cresci
• Chapter 2. Conveying Correspondence
• PART II. TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGNS
• Chapter 3. Enigmatic Cultures of Cryptology
• Chapter 4. Material Fictions
• Chapter 5. Allegory and Epistolarity
• PART III. GENRES AND RHETORICS
• 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”
• PART IV. THE AFTERLIVES OF LETTERS
• 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
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments