Epistolary community in print, 1580-1664 / by Diana G. Barnes.

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Diana G.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

Series:

Material readings in early modern culture.
Material readings in early modern culture

Format/Description:

Book
xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

English letters -- History and criticism.
English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Letter writing -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Letter writing -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.

Contents:

Introduction : members of the kingdom of letters
Angel Day's rhetoric for "any learner" in The English secretary (1586 and 1599)
Feminine poetical letters : Michael Drayton's England's heroical epistles
Letters of feminine friendship at the court of Henrietta Maria : Jacques du Bosque's The secretary of ladies
Epistolary battles in the English Civil War : The kings cabinet opened
Epistolary restoration : Margaret Cavendish's letters
Conclusion : new republics of letters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

ISBN:

9781409445357 (hardcover)
1409445356 (hardcover)
9781409445364 (ebook)
1409445364 (PDF ebook)
9781409445364 (PDF ebook)
9781409473145 (ePub ebook)
1409473147 (ePub ebook)

OCLC:

796001859

Web link:

The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page

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