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Epistolary Selves - Letters and Letter-Writers, 1600-1945 (Paperback)
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Epistolary Selves - Letters and Letter-Writers, 1600-1945 (Paperback)
Series: Warwick Studies in the Humanities
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This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters
have played in social, economic and political history from the
seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest
in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which
consider letters as a category of readable material. The
contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight, viewing
letters as texts which can reveal information, not only about their
writers and readers, but about the wider historical context in
which they were written. Topics covered include the mercantile
letter, diplomatic correspondence, and what these epistolary forms
suggest about the rise of a polite, literate culture in the
eighteenth century; the experience of immigration from Europe to
America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the
relationship through the letter; and the working of gender in the
epistolary form. Rebecca Earle provides an overview of how the
study of letter-writing can open up new avenues of historical as
well as literary investigation. This, together with contributions
form leading international scholars, makes Epistolary Selves an
essential text for those researching the letter genre.
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