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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493205203321

Autore

Trolander Paul <1956->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

1-61149-516-4

1-61149-498-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

826.309

Soggetti

English letters - History and criticism

Letter writing - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Letter writing - Great Britain - History - 18th century

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

Literature and society - England - History - 17th century

Literature and society - England - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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