{"id":825,"date":"2016-06-15T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=825"},"modified":"2016-06-10T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:51:15","slug":"825","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/06\/15\/825\/","title":{"rendered":"New edited collection on Early Modern Letter Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/james-daybell\" target=\"_blank\">Prof James Daybell<\/a> has just published a new book, with Andrew Gordon of Aberdeen University, entitled <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpress\/book\/15496.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/06\/daybell-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-828 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/06\/daybell-book-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"daybell book\" width=\"228\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><i> <\/i>This\u00a0edited collection\u00a0about early modern letter writing, published in the University of Pennsylvania Press&#8217; Material Texts series, brings together leading scholars in the field from around the world including\u00a0Nadine Akkerman, Mark Brayshay, Christopher Burlinson, Jonathan Gibson, Arnold Hunt, Lynne Magnusson, Michelle O&#8217;Callaghan, Alan Stewart and Andrew Zurcher<\/p>\n<p>The volume overturns the notion that letters are private, unmediated sources of the writer\u2019s thoughts and instead reveals and delights in the literary, artful qualities of letters and the cultures of collaboration and rewriting that produced them.<\/p>\n<p>By attending to what is described as the &#8216;social materiality\u2019 of letter writing \u2013 the physical features of the text; the social and cultural practices of epistolary culture; and the material contexts in which letters were produced \u2013 this new collection provides a rich sociology of early modern letter writing.<\/p>\n<p>James Daybell is Professor of Early Modern British History at Plymouth University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof James Daybell has just published a new book, with Andrew Gordon of Aberdeen University, entitled Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain. This\u00a0edited collection\u00a0about early modern letter writing, published in the University of Pennsylvania Press&#8217; Material Texts series, brings together leading scholars in the field from around the world including\u00a0Nadine Akkerman, Mark Brayshay, Christopher&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/06\/15\/825\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New edited collection on Early Modern Letter Writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,3],"tags":[36,318,319,40,33,140,320],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histories-memory-memorialisation","category-news","tag-book","tag-correspondence","tag-culture","tag-early-modern","tag-history","tag-james-daybell","tag-letter-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}