Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing - Couverture rigide

Golden, Catherine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813033799 ISBN 13 : 9780813033792

Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2009

Synopsis

Although 'snail mail' may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. Golden demonstrates how cheap postage - which was quickly adopted in other countries - led to a postal 'network' that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to blackmail, frauds, unsolicited mass mailings, and junk mail - problems that remain with us today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Catherine J. Golden is professor of English at Skidmore College

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Florida
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0813033799
• ISBN 13: 9780813033792
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 320