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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Epistolary culture"”.
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The Translation and Reception of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in Renaissance Literary Culture, 1556-1674
… as well as vital English trends in poetics, epistolary culture, and private and institutional life. I make two primary arguments concerning these translations. First, I argue that the uniquely varied thematic and formal interests of the original — fortune, posterity, displacement and exile; …
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The Spiritual Pedagogy of the Cloud-author
… author’s engagement with monastic and devotional epistolary culture, namely the eleventh- and twelfth-century Latin letters of Bernard of Clairvaux and Anselm of Bec, along with those of the *Cloud*-author’s contemporary, Walter Hilton. The *Cloud*-author uses the epistolary format rhetorically, I …
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"""I feel impelled to write"": male intimacy, epistolary privacy, and the culture of letter writing during the American Civil War"
… Women on the home front played key roles as the epistolary confidants of soldiers. After the war, these women, as well as veterans themselves, sought to maintain the public façade of masculine heroism by silencing the wartime admissions of fear, doubt, and desertion.