Games and War in Early Modern English Literature: From Shakespeare to Swift

The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany.

[Holly Faith Nelson](https: //www.twu.ca/profile/holly-faith-nelson) is Professor and Chair of English and Creative Writing at Trinity Western University. She has published widely on the literature of the seventeenth and long eighteenth centuries, with a specialty in the literature of war. [Jim Daems](https: //www.ucn.ca/profiles/Pages/Daems, Jim.aspx) is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University College of the North. He has published articles and books on a range of early modern and long-eighteenth century topics and author