Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing In America Before Telecommunications
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ISBN : 9780807847435
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Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications
Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography andhistory, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensionshave only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to thepostmodern period. After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences ofspace, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letterswritten by such well-known and well-educated persons as JohnWinthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and JohnAdams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Clemens, Henry James, and Alice James, but also letters by persons who, except in their correspondence, were not writers at all: indentured servants, New England factory workers, slaves, soldiers, and Western pioneers. Individual chapters explore the letter writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and Henry Adams--three of America's most ambitious, accomplished, and theoretically astute letter writers. Finally, Decker considers the ongoing transformation of letter writing in the electronic age.
Specification of Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications
GENERAL | |
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Author | William Merrill Decker |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | New edition |
ISBN-10 | 0807847437 |
ISBN-13 | 9780807847435 |
Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication Year | 1998 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 5.75 inch. |
Length | 0.74 inch. |
Width | 9.25 inch. |
Weight | 1.5 pounds. |
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