Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of womena€?s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-Elizabethan perio
Using the letter as its main evidence, Literary Sociability in Early Modern England: The Epistolary Record examines early-modern English literary networks, especially during the period 1620 to 1720, f
Epistolary Community in Print contends that the printed letter is an inherently sociable genre ideally suited to the theorisation of community in early modern England. In manual, prose or poetic form,
Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives: Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter tells the stories of these women's writing lives: the social and literary conte
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter b
Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing
This important book, now in paperback, explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Who wrote letters? Who read letters? What were the conventions of lett
Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製Whether describing the Turkish baths in Sofia or the London social scene, negotiating her marriage settlement or declaring her passion for a young Italian, Lady Mary Wo
Guy Piran wrote 2,000 letters over a period of three years. It became an obsession, to say the least. When he completed the 2,000th letter he set out across East Sussex with two friends and a van, a
This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of rea
Berg (English, Gettysburg College) believes that a cache of letters she ran across in the Society of Antiquaries in London are in fact the skeleton of two novels, even though some of the figures in th
A wide-ranging study of letter-writing in the Eighteenth-century, this important new book explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Organized around a
Letterwriting in Renaissance England reproduces in full size and transcribes a number of letters from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Both a sourcebook for scholars and a treasu
Letters were the primary material medium of early modern sociocultural exchange and, along with face-to-face conversation, a critical means of pragmatic communications, says Canadian-born Schneider (E
In engaging prose, How (no affiliation is noted) defines and traces the nature of letters and letter-writing as this developed after the establishment of the Post Office in Britain in 1650 made corres
Charles Townley's (1737-1805) love for classical antiquities began during his Grand Tour of Italy in 1767 and the items that he purchased were the start of a much larger collection that he amassed.
Love, life, writing and friendship are the intimate subjects of letters between three intelligent, witty women who shared a passionate commitment to Australian literature. These carefully selected let
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