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Using the letter as its main evidence, Literary Sociability in Early Modern England examines early-modern English literary networks, focusing on the period 1620 to 1720, finding that author manuscripts were increasing understood as seedbeds of knowledge production and humanistic creativity and therefore as natural predecessors to print.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Changing the Way We Theorize Early Modern Literary Sociability
Chapter 2. Technologies, Infrastructure and Class
Chapter 3. Finding One's Place in the Early Modern Literary Field
Chapter 4. Making Sense of the Conversational and Cooperative Aspects of Literary Networking
Chapter 5. Subject Positions in Early Modern Literary Networks
Chapter 6. Cooperative Aspects of Early Modern Literary Activity: Assistance, Sharing and Reputation Building
Chapter 7. Cultural Capital Formation Among Early Modern Literary Networks
Chapter 8. The Cultural Economics of Brokering within Literary Networks
Appendix 1. List of All Sources Consulted for the Database, Categorized by Type
Appendix 2. Actions Noted in Letters, Categorized by Commonly Recommended Letter Types or Actions in Secretaries and Letter-Writing Manuals
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
By Paul Trolander
Summary
Using the letter as its main evidence, Literary Sociability in Early Modern England examines early-modern English literary networks, focusing on the period 1620 to 1720, finding that author manuscripts were increasing understood as seedbeds of knowledge production and humanistic creativity and therefore as natural predecessors to print.
