Lewis, Rhodri (Author)
Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor (Editor)
Manning, Gideon (Editor)
Springer International Publishing
Pages: 301-321
Publication date: 2023
Language: English
This paper re-examines the temperate, decorous, and polite modes of discursive interaction that the Royal Society’s Fellows adopted in some of their exchanges with one another. The paper shows that it is only by setting aside the Society’s engagements with the cultures of correspondence and scribal publication that we can maintain that temperate, decorous, and polite discursive interactions were the Fellows’ typical manner of exchange. This point is made through a detailed case study of Sir William Petty, whose correspondence remains largely intact and unexplored, and whose business interests in Ireland meant he was often away from London and received written accounts of what transpired at the Royal Society. One of the insights to glean from Petty is his hostility to print publication, but another and deeper one, on which the paper ends, is the reality that scribal and print cultures were mutually and deeply interpenetrative clusters of activity with the language of the two influencing one another to unsettle simple assumptions about Restoration literary culture, including Petty’s own assumptions.
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