'Scruples and ceremonies' : Lady Brilliana Harley's epistolary combat
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Harris, Johanna. (2012). 'Scruples and ceremonies' : Lady Brilliana Harley's epistolary combat. Parergon : Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 29(2), pp. 93-112. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2012.0099
Authors | Harris, Johanna |
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Abstract | Lady Brilliana Harley’s valiant defence of Brampton Bryan during its royalist besiegement in the summer of 1643 has been widely celebrated in women’s history. However, her deliberate, strategic, and highly rhetorical use of letter writing to conduct this military resistance deserves wider literary attention. Harley was already a prolific writer of letters by 1643, but in these understudied letter exchanges during wartime she activates a more precise knowledge of the rhetorical apparatus underlying the epistolary genre than seen previously, effectively transforming her letters and sense of authorship into her own militarized mode of Civil War combat. |
Keywords | Lady Brilliana Harley; Brampton Bryan Castle (England); English Civil War; rhetoric; Women--Authorship ; Letter writing |
Year | 01 Jan 2012 |
Journal | Parergon : Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
Journal citation | 29 (2), pp. 93-112 |
Publisher | Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
ISSN | 0313-6221 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2012.0099 |
Web address (URL) | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/498945 |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 93-112 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Dec 2012 | |
Online | 12 Feb 2013 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 07 May 2024 |
Additional information | © Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2012 |
Place of publication | Australia |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/906z1/-scruples-and-ceremonies-lady-brilliana-harley-s-epistolary-combat
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