Self-presentation and social identification : the rhetoric and pragmatics of letter writing in early modern times / edited by Toon Van Houdt [and others].

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Corporate Author: Self-Presentation and Social Identification Louvain and Brussels, Belgium
Other Authors: Houdt, T. van (Toon), 1966-
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
French
German
Italian
Published: Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2002.
Series:Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia ; 18.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Toon Van Houdt and Jan Papy
  • Humanist Letter Writing: Private Conversation or Public Forum? / Judith Rice Henderson
  • Vives versus Erasmus on the Art of Letter Writing / Charles Fantazzi
  • Erasme en sa correspondance: conquete(s) et defaite(s) du language / Christine Benevent
  • Style and Tradition in Ben Jonson's Verse Epistles / Tim Markey
  • Imaginary Correspondence: Epistolary Rhetoric and the Hermeneutics of Disbelief / Kristine Haugen
  • Literature, Thought or Fact? Past and Present Directions in the Study of the Early Modern Letter / Warren V. Boutcher
  • Careerism at Cracow: The Dedicatory Letters of Rudolf Agricola Junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox (1510-1530) / Jacqueline Glomski
  • Lipsius' Letters of Recommendation / Mark Morford
  • Letters, Learning and Learned Ladies. An Analysis of Otto Sperling, Jr.'s (1634-1715) Correspondence with Scandinavian Women / Elisabet Goransson
  • In Strict Confidence: Grotius' Correspondence with his Socinian Friends / Henk J. M. Nellen
  • Strategies and Slander in the Protestant Part of the Republic of Letters: Image, Friendship and Patronage in Etienne de Courcelles' Correspondence / Corinna L. Vermeulen
  • La crisi del sapere rinascimentale in un carteggio italiano di primo Settecento / Antonio Iurilli
  • Argumentis, non contumeliis: The Humanistic Model for Religious Debate and Erasmus' Apologetic Letters / Erika Rummel
  • The Grammarian as 'Poeta' and 'Vates': Self-Presentation in the Antibossicon / Jane Griffiths
  • Letter Writing and the Management of Scientific Controversy: The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg (1661-1677) / Iordan Avramov
  • Die Grundlegung humanistischer Selbstprasentation im Brief-Corpus: Francesco Petrarcas Familiarium rerum libri XXIV / Karl A. E. Enenkel
  • Before Clarissa: Erasmus, 'Letters of Obscure Men', and Epistolary Fictions / Lisa Jardine
  • Conceal or Disclose? The Limits of Self-Representation in the Letters of Juan Luis Vives / Edward V. George
  • Self-Presentation in the Published Correspondence of George Buchanan / Philip J. Ford
  • Tycho Brahe's Epistolae Astronomicae: A Reappraisal / Adam Mosley.