Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-304) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. The early modern letter opener / James Daybell and Andrew Gordon -- Part I. 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 II. 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 III. 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 IV. 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.
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