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After demonstrating how consistently early-modern letter-writing manuals promote the letter’s capacity to convey emotion, this chapter presents two case studies of family correspondence centred on a son who is away at school. Through close attention to syntax, sentence structure, and turns of phrase in letters written home by Philip Gawdy, Owens shows just how provisional could be the experience of paternal authority. By examining Henry Sidney’s first-ever letter of advice to his son Philip as both family correspondence and published text, and by analysing the effects of Mary Sidney’s postscript (in the family version), Owens furnishes a context that gauges how much the emotional dynamics of family life shape moral learning and that suggests how much technologies of learning condition that learning.
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Owens, J. (2020). Paternal Authority in the Home: Emotional Negotiations. In: Emotional Settings in Early Modern Pedagogical Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43149-5_3
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