Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain /
James Daybell, Andrew Gordon.
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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 Daybell, James / Gordon, Andrew -- Gibson, Jonathan -- Brayshay, Mark -- Akkerman, Nadine -- Gordon, Andrew -- Zurcher, Andrew -- Magnusson, Lynne -- Burlinson, Christopher -- O'Callaghan, Michelle -- Hunt, Arnold -- Daybell, James -- Stewart, Alan --