Kapitel in diesem Buch

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