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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690

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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 book

Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690

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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 book

Edited ByJames Daybell, Andrew Gordon
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 10 June 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546919
Pages 274 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315546919
SubjectsCommunication Studies, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Daybell, J. (Ed.), Gordon, A. (Ed.). (2016). Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546919

Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by a group of international scholars who together look to reorient the study of women’s letters in the contexts of early modern culture. The volume builds upon recent approaches to the letter, both rhetorical and material, that have the power to transform the ways in which we understand, study and situate early modern women’s letter-writing, challenging misconceptions of women’s letters as intrinsically private, domestic and apolitical. The essays in the volume embrace a range of interdisciplinary approaches: historical, literary, palaeographic, linguistic, material and gender-based. Contributors deal with a variety of issues related to early modern women’s correspondence in England and Ireland. These include women’s rhetorical and persuasive skills and the importance of gendered epistolary strategies; gender and the materiality of the letter as a physical form; female agency, education, knowledge and power; epistolary networks and communication technologies. In this volume, the study of women’s letters is not confined to writings by women; contributors here examine not only the collaborative nature of some letter-writing but also explore how men addressed women in their correspondence as well as some rich examples of how women were constructed in and through the letters of men. As a whole, the book stands as a valuable reassessment of the complex gendered nature of early modern women’s correspondence.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Living letters: Re-reading correspondence and women’s letters

ByJAMES DAYBELL, ANDREW GORDON

part |2 pages

Part I Objects of study: Constructing women’s letters

chapter 2|13 pages

What they wrote: Early Tudor aristocratic women, 1450–1550

ByBARBARA J. HARRIS

chapter 3|19 pages

‘By the queen’: Collaborative authorship in scribal correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I

ByMELANIE EVANS

chapter 4|24 pages

The materiality of early modern women’s letters

ByJAMES DAYBELL

part |2 pages

Part II Voices of authority: Letters of counsel and advice

chapter 5|15 pages

Women as counsellors in sixteenth-century England: The letters of Lady Anne Bacon and Lady Elizabeth Russell

ByGEMMA ALLEN

chapter 6|14 pages

The rhetoric of medical authority in Lady Katherine Ranelagh’s letters

ByMICHELLE DIMEO

chapter 7|18 pages

John Evelyn, Elizabeth Carey, and the trials of pious friendship

ByCEDRIC C. BROWN

chapter 8|21 pages

‘Be plyeabell to all good counsell’: Lady Brilliana Harley’s advice letter to her son

ByJOHANNA HARRIS

part |2 pages

Part III Networks and negotiations: The social relations of correspondence

chapter 9|16 pages

Making friends with Elizabeth in the letters of Roger Ascham

ByRACHEL MCGREGOR

chapter 10|15 pages

Irish women’s letters, 1641–1653

ByMARIE-LOUISE COOLAHAN

chapter 11|25 pages

Recovering agency in the epistolary traffic of Frances, Countess of Essex and Jane Daniell

ByANDREW GORDON

chapter 12|14 pages

Quaker correspondence: Religious identity and communication networks in the interregnum Atlantic World

ByAtlantic World MARJON AMES

part |2 pages

Postscript

chapter 13|16 pages

New directions in early modern women’s letters: WEMLO’s challenges and possibilities

ByKIM MCLEAN-FIANDER AND JAMES DAYBELL
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