Letter writing / edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nevalainen, Terttu.

Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa.

Series:

Benjamins current topics.

Benjamins current topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letters.

Letter writing.

Physical Description:

viii, 159 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The article deals with correspondence in natural history in the eighteenth century between England and North America. The corpus discussed consists of correspondence between John Bartram and Peter Collinson, and between Alexander Garden and John Ellis. The approach used in the study is qualitative and rhetorical; the main point considered is how the letters construct scientific centre and periphery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. A central concept is the "colonial exchange", whereby "raw materials" from the colonies - in this case plant and animal specimens, along with proposed identifications and names - are exchanged for "finished products", in this case codified scientific knowledge contained in publications.

Contents:

Letter Writing

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

About the authors

Introduction

Power and politeness

Letters

Text in context

Intertextual networks in the correspondence of Lady Katherine Paston

Inside and out

Yours sincerely and yours affectionately

"The pleasure of receiving your favour"

Review of "The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A Pragmatic Approach" by Susan Fitzmaurice

The series Benjamins Current Topics (BCT).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612155123

9781282155121

1282155121

9789027293008

9027293007

OCLC:

705531305