{"id":1089,"date":"2016-08-08T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2016-08-09T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:30:01","slug":"professor-james-daybell-has-a-new-book-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/08\/08\/professor-james-daybell-has-a-new-book-published\/","title":{"rendered":"New book on early modern women and agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/08\/Women-and-Epistolary-Agency.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1087 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/08\/Women-and-Epistolary-Agency-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Women and Epistolary Agency\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/08\/Women-and-Epistolary-Agency-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/08\/Women-and-Epistolary-Agency-260x390.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/08\/Women-and-Epistolary-Agency-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/08\/Women-and-Epistolary-Agency.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Plymouth University researcher Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/james-daybell\">James Daybell\u2019s<\/a> new book <em>Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450\u20131690<\/em> (edited with Andrew Gordon, Aberdeen University) was recently published by Routledge.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women\u2019s 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\u2019s letters in the contexts of early modern culture.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s letter-writing, challenging misconceptions of women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Contributors deal with a variety of issues related to early modern women\u2019s correspondence in England and Ireland. These include women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>In this volume, the study of women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plymouth University researcher Professor\u00a0James Daybell\u2019s new book Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450\u20131690 (edited with Andrew Gordon, Aberdeen University) was recently published by Routledge.\u00a0 It is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women\u2019s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/08\/08\/professor-james-daybell-has-a-new-book-published\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New book on early modern women and agency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":1087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,3],"tags":[36,358,405,33,140],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histories-memory-memorialisation","category-news","tag-book","tag-early-modern-history","tag-gender-studies","tag-history","tag-james-daybell","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}