Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… humanist model of Latin men of letters to a more socially diffuse model of learned and vernacular communities of men and women writing, traveling, reading, and publishing’ ( Edelstein et al. 413) . Increased travel enabled the epistolary … Although not the participants in the Republic of Letters who got the public or institutional recognition they were due, women were nonetheless active members of this network, albeit in smaller numbers. Women were central nodes for the in-person practices of sociability that were critical for the solidification of ties, …
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