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Print Letters in Seventeenth‐Century England Politics, Religion, and News Culture
By Gary Schneider
Copyright 2018
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England investigates how and why letters were printed in the interrelated spheres of political contestation, religious controversy, and news culture—those published as pamphlets, as broadsides, and in newsbooks in the interests of ideological disputes and as political and religious propaganda. The epistolary texts examined in this book, be they fictional,... Read more
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Biography
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).
