TY - BOOK ID - 79392308 TI - Women and epistolary agency in early modern culture, 1450-1690 AU - Daybell, James AU - Gordon, Andrew PY - 2016 SN - 9781472478269 9781315546919 9781134771981 9781134772056 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Non-fiction KW - Sociology of literature KW - English literature KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - English letters KW - English prose literature KW - Women authors, English KW - Letter writing KW - 028-055.2 KW - 094:82-6 KW - Correspondence KW - English letter writing KW - Letter writing, English KW - Writing of letters KW - Authorship KW - Letters KW - English women authors KW - 094:82-6 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Brief KW - Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Brief KW - 028-055.2 Vrouwelijke lezers KW - Vrouwelijke lezers KW - Women authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - E-books KW - Women authors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79392308 AB - 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. ER -