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Author Campbell, Julie D

Title Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages)
Series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Women and gender in the early modern world.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; PART I: CONTINENTAL EPISTOLARY COMMUNITIES; 1 Letters Make the Family: Nassau Family Correspondence at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century; 2 Letters and Lace: Arcangela Tarabotti and Convent Culture in Seicento Venice; 3 Women, Letters, and Heresy in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Giulia Gonzaga's Heterodox Epistolary Network; PART II: CROSS-CHANNEL TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES AND USES OF PRINT
4 The Gender of the Book: Jeanne de Marnef Edits Pernette du Guillet5 ""Some Improvement to their Spiritual and Eternal State"": Women's Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England; 6 The Public Life of Anne Vaughan Lock: Her Reception in England and Scotland; 7 Esther Inglis: Linguist, Calligrapher, Miniaturist, and Christian Humanist; 8 Courtliness, Piety, and Politics: Emblem Books by Georgette de Montenay, Anna Roemers Visscher, and Esther Inglis; PART III: CONSTRUCTIONS OF TRANSNATIONAL LITERARY CIRCLES
9 Crossing International Borders: Tutors and the Transmission of Young Women's Writing10 Journeying Across Borders: Catherine des Roches's Catalog of Modern Women Intellectuals; 11 Forming families d'alliance: Intellectual Kinship in the Republic of Letters; Afterword: Critical Distance; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-320) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- History -- 17th century
Women and literature -- History
Literature, Modern
Literature -- Women authors
Women and literature
Frau
Literarisches Leben
Schriftstellerin
Frau -- Literatur -- Geschichte 16. Jh.
Literatur -- Frau -- Geschichte 16. Jh.
Frau -- Literatur -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Literatur -- Frau -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Frauenbrief -- Geschichte 16. Jh.
Frauenbrief -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Litteratur -- kvinnliga författare -- analys och tolkning.
Kvinnor och litteratur -- historia.
Europa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Larsen, Anne R
ISBN 9781351942386
1351942387