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Book
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Title
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 Letter-writing manuals and instruction from antiquity to the present : historical and bibliographic studies / edited by Carol Poster and Linda C. Mitchell.
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Publisher
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Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2007.
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Physical Descrip.
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x, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Studies in rhetoric/communication
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-335) and index.
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Contents
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Classical epistolary theory and the letters of Isocrates / Robert G. Sullivan -- A conversation halved : epistolary theory in Greco-Roman antiquity / Carol Poster -- The Ars dictaminis, the formulary, and medieval epistolary practice / Malcolm Richardson -- If you can join them, beat them; or, when grammar met business writing (in fifteenth-century Oxford) / Martin Camargo -- From Ars dictaminis to Ars conscribendi epistolis : Renaissance letter-writing manuals in the context of humanism / Gideon Burton -- Dictamen in England, 1500 1700 / Lawrence D. Green -- Letter writing and vernacular literacy in sixteenth-century England / W. Webster Newbold -- Humanism and the humanities : Erasmus’s Opus de conscribendis epistolis in sixteenth-century schools / Judith Rice Henderson -- Letter-writing instruction manuals in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England / Linda C. Mitchell -- Vestiges of letter writing in composition textbooks, 1850 1914 / John T. Gage -- Letter writing in the late age of print : electronic mail and the Ars Dictaminis / Joyce R. Walker.
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Subject(s)
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Letter writing -- History.
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Letter writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Other Author(s)
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Poster, Carol.
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Mitchell, Linda C.
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Link to Online
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 Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006032828.html
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ISBN
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9781570036514 (cloth : alk. paper)
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1570036519 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Owned By
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AC Frost Library
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Owned By
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SC Neilson Library
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Owned By
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UM Du Bois Library
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