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Book SynopsisThis collection of fifteen essays by distinguished scholars covers aspects of interdisciplinarity and collaboration within the Republic of Letters. The essays include historical, theological, and literary topics and all focus on different means of communication of individuals between other intellectuals, with the past, and through the arts. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface – Paul Scott
Introduction – Paul Scott
List of complete publications, excluding reviews by Richard Maber
List of contributors
List of illustrations
Part one: polemical aspects
1. A puritan collaboration in defence of the liberty of the subject: James Morice, Robert Beale, and the Elizabethan campaign against ecclesiastical authority – Christopher Brooks
2. 'What a do with the Kings and the statues is here’: Milton, Marvell, and John Sobieski – Martin Dzelzainis
3. Viper wine – Peter Davidson
4. Paradise lost?: Discovering Amazonia in the *Relation de la riviere des Amazones* – Joy Charnley
5. Hobbes, Davenant, and disciplinary tensions in *The preface to Gondibert* – Timothy Raylor
Part two: collaborative boundaries
6. Camille de Morel and the Republic of Letters – Jane Stevenson
7. Woman of parts, Marie le Bailleul, *marquise d’Huxelles* (1626–1712) – William Brooks
8. *Un silence éloquent … un silence moqueur … un silence respectueux*: some reflections on seventeenth-century gossip – Nicholas Hammond
9. The book as gift in Elizabethan Durham: Barnabe Barnes’s *A Divine Centurie of Spiritual Sonnets* – Arnold Hunt and Alison Shell
10. From Provence to Prussia: Voltaire’s *Paméla* and the *Voyage de Messieurs de Bachaumont et La Chapelle* – Jonathan Mallinson
Part three: the stage and page
11. Suspension points in Molière: print and performance – Michael Hawcroft
12. Corneille’s Rome: from centre to periphery – Henry Phillips
13. Shakespeare as collaborator: the case of *Titus Andronicus* – Paul Hammond
14. The Portia principle: Montfleury’s *La Femme juge et partie* (1668/69) and Fatouville’s *Colombine avocat pour et contre* (1685) – Jan Clarke
15. Texts, travel, and flying machines: the lost world of seventeenth-century scholarship – Richard Maber’s inaugural lecture
Index
