The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing

Celeste-Marie Bernier

ISBN 10: 0748692924 / ISBN 13: 9780748692927

Edité par Edinburgh University Press Feb 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Provides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writing.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9780748692927

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• Titre: The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press Feb 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0748692924
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780748692927
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 244 L x 168 H x 46 P (en millimètres) 244 millimètres de largeur par 168 millimètres de hauteur par 46 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1610 grammes

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Synopsis

This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field - the history of letters and letter writing - is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties.

À propos de l?auteur

Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of African American Studies University of Nottingham and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Studies (Cambridge University Press). Judie Newman, OBE, is a former Chair of the British Association for American Studies, a Founding Fellow of the English Association, the recipient of the Arthur Miller Prize in American Studies, and Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham. Matthew Pethers is an Associate Professor in American Intellectual and Cultural History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on the literary history, print culture, performative arts and scientific thought of eighteenth and nineteenth-century America.