Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 170813155
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- ISBN
- 9780812248258
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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12
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This volume brings together an international multi-disciplinary team to examine the linguistic, rhetorical, and material strategies behind the writing of letters in the early modern period, and the cultural practices informing their transmission, reception, and afterlives. It is the fruit of a six year collaboration between the editors and the commissioned authors. The work presented here draws on extensive archival research, palaeographic and diplomatic analysis, allied to disciplinary expertise in cultural geography, manuscript culture, textual scholarship, as well as literary and historical interpretation more broadly.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This edited collection features eleven original essays along with an extensive introductory essay co-written by the editors (‘The Early Modern Letter Opener’: c.12,000 words). Among the eleven essays, Gordon contributed ‘Material Fictions’, c.12,000 words. The editors worked closely with each contributor in the multi-disciplinary team, negotiating multiple stages of revision, and seeing the work through the submission and production process. The editors also worked closely with the press on the typesetting and layout of the volume, including both text and illustrations, and compiled the index. In addition, the editors were responsible for overseeing illustrations permissions. The project took six years to complete, and involved the organisation of a series of conferences, colloquia, and co-ordinated panels at international conferences.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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