Cultures of correspondence in early modern Britain

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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