Libelous Letters in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England.
An essay is presented on libelous letters in the Stuart era of England. The author argues that the letters were influenced by socio-political processes and exploited for their textual properties regarding complaints, satire, and inscribed emotion. Customary practices of letter composition, signature...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 105; no. 3; pp. 475 - 510 |
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University of Chicago Press
Feb2008
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| Sumario: | An essay is presented on libelous letters in the Stuart era of England. The author argues that the letters were influenced by socio-political processes and exploited for their textual properties regarding complaints, satire, and inscribed emotion. Customary practices of letter composition, signature, sealing, and exchange are analyzed in terms of a combination of both political and personal meaning. |
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