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
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 pro
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index
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