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Women letter-writers in Tudor England / James Daybell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daybell, James, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English letters--History and criticism.
- English letters.
- English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Women and literature.
- Letter writing--England--History--16th century.
- Letter writing.
- England--Social life and customs--16th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has been hitherto assumed. In that letters constitute the largest body ofextant sixteenth-century women's writing, the book initiates a reassessment of women's education and literacy in t
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Note on Conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. Letters and Letter-Writers; 3. The Composition of Letters; 4. Female Literacy and the Social Conventions of Letter-Writing; 5. Delivery, Reception, and Reading; 6. The Functions of Letter-Writing; 7. Social Relations Inscribed in Correspondence; 8. Marital Correspondence; 9. Letters of Petition; 10. Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-310) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-256668-7
- 1-280-90526-3
- 0-19-153189-8
- 1-4294-9288-0
- 9786610905263
- OCLC:
- 746747086
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