Focusing on six examples of printed letters from the period, in this study Diana Barnes develops a genealogy of epistolary discourse in early modern England. She considers how the examples-from the writings of Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spencer, Angel...
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Focusing on six examples of printed letters from the period, in this study Diana Barnes develops a genealogy of epistolary discourse in early modern England. She considers how the examples-from the writings of Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spencer, Angel Day, Michael Drayton, Jacques du Bosque and Margaret Cavendish-manipulate this generic tradition to articulate ideas of community under specific historical and political circumstances
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Members of the Kingdom of Letters; 1 Angel Day's Rhetoric for "any learner" in The English Secretary; 2 Feminine Poetical Letters: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles; 3 Letters of Feminine Friendship at the Court of Henrietta Maria: Jacques du Bosque's The Secretary of Ladies (1638); 4 Epistolary Battles in the English Civil War: The Kings Cabinet Opened (1645); 5 Epistolary Restoration: Margaret Cavendish's Letters; Conclusion: New Republics of Letters; Bibliography; Index;
