“trobled wth a tedious discours”
Sincerity, sarcasm and seriousness in the letters of Maria Thynne, c. 1601–1610
This study provides close, pragmatically-orientated readings of epistolary manifestations of sincerity, sarcasm and seriousness as expressed in the letters of Maria Thynne to her mother-in-law and to her husband, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. By examining how each mode of expression arose from, and interacted with, its familial and textual environments, these readings discuss the social functions and linguistic implications of Maria’s stylistic repertoire. The study concludes with the suggestion that the letters provide preliminary evidence for the claim that, along with that of sincerity, the Early Modern period may also have been of some significance for the development of sarcasm in English.
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De Toni, Francesco
2020.
Expressing friendship in letters: Conventionality and sincerity in the multilingual correspondence of nineteenth-century Catholic churchmen.
Multilingua 39:1
► pp. 33 ff.

Williams, Graham
2012.
“That thought never ytt entered my harte”: Rhetoricalities of Sincerity in Early Modern English.
English Studies 93:7
► pp. 809 ff.

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