Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England Politics, Religion, and News Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138309579 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 284 str.

Gary Schneider

Opis

This book investigates how and why letters were printed in the interrelated spheres of political contestation, religious controversy, and news culture. This essential context serves to highlight the manner in which letters were exploited as propaganda and operated as vehicles of cultural narrative.

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Dr. Gary Schneider is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in English from Wayne State University in 2001 and has published a number of articles and book chapters on early modern letters and letter writing as well as a monograph entitled The Culture of Epistolarity: Vernacular Letters and Letter Writing in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 (2005).