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Chapter 8. “An Uncivill Scurrilous Letter”

“Womanish Brabb[l]es” and the Letter of Affront
© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. List of Abbreviations and Conventions ix
  4. Introduction. The Early Modern Letter Opener 1
  5. PART I. MATERIAL PRACTICES
  6. Chapter 1. From Palatino to Cresci 29
  7. Chapter 2. Conveying Correspondence 48
  8. PART II. TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGNS
  9. Chapter 3. Enigmatic Cultures of Cryptology 69
  10. Chapter 4. Material Fictions 85
  11. Chapter 5. Allegory and Epistolarity 110
  12. PART III. GENRES AND RHETORICS
  13. Chapter 6. Mixed Messages and Cicero Effects in the Herrick Family Letters of the Sixteenth Century 131
  14. Chapter 7. John Stubbs’s Left- Handed Letters 156
  15. Chapter 8. “An Uncivill Scurrilous Letter” 169
  16. PART IV. THE AFTERLIVES OF LETTERS
  17. Chapter 9. “Burn This Letter”: Preservation and Destruction in the Early Modern Archive 189
  18. Chapter 10. Gendered Archival Practices and the Future Lives of Letters 210
  19. Chapter 11. Familiar Letters and State Papers 237
  20. Notes 253
  21. Select Bibliography 299
  22. Contributors 305
  23. Index 309
  24. Acknowledgments 321
Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
This chapter is in the book Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292930-010

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. List of Abbreviations and Conventions ix
  4. Introduction. The Early Modern Letter Opener 1
  5. PART I. MATERIAL PRACTICES
  6. Chapter 1. From Palatino to Cresci 29
  7. Chapter 2. Conveying Correspondence 48
  8. PART II. TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGNS
  9. Chapter 3. Enigmatic Cultures of Cryptology 69
  10. Chapter 4. Material Fictions 85
  11. Chapter 5. Allegory and Epistolarity 110
  12. PART III. GENRES AND RHETORICS
  13. Chapter 6. Mixed Messages and Cicero Effects in the Herrick Family Letters of the Sixteenth Century 131
  14. Chapter 7. John Stubbs’s Left- Handed Letters 156
  15. Chapter 8. “An Uncivill Scurrilous Letter” 169
  16. PART IV. THE AFTERLIVES OF LETTERS
  17. Chapter 9. “Burn This Letter”: Preservation and Destruction in the Early Modern Archive 189
  18. Chapter 10. Gendered Archival Practices and the Future Lives of Letters 210
  19. Chapter 11. Familiar Letters and State Papers 237
  20. Notes 253
  21. Select Bibliography 299
  22. Contributors 305
  23. Index 309
  24. Acknowledgments 321
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