Literary sociability in early modern england : the epistolary record / Paul Trolander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trolander, Paul, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English letters--History and criticism.

English letters.

Letter writing--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Letter writing.

Letter writing--Great Britain--History--18th century.

English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--England--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; London, England : University of Delaware Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using the letter as its main evidence, Literary Sociability in Early Modern England: The Epistolary Record examines early-modern English literary networks, especially during the period 1620 to 1720, finding that author manuscripts were increasingly understood as seedbeds of knowledge production and humanistic creativity and therefore as natural predecessors to print. Early modern authors, patrons and even regulators cultivated the letter and theories of friendship to build literary networks that could collaborate on writing projects with strong cultural appeal. By being associated with texts o

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Changing the Way We Theorize Early Modern Literary Sociability; 2 Technologies, Infrastructure, and Class; 3 Finding One's Place in the Early Modern Literary Field; 4 Making Sense of the Conversational and Cooperative Aspects of Literary Networking; 5 Subject Positions in Early Modern Literary Networks; 6 Cooperative Aspects of Early Modern Literary Activity; 7 Cultural Capital Formation Among Early Modern Literary Networks; 8 The Cultural Economics of Brokering within Literary Networks; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61149-516-4

1-61149-498-2

OCLC:

881417113