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Epistolary practices : letter writing in America before telecommunications / William Merrill Decker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807866636
  • 9780807866634
  • 0807824380
  • 9780807824382
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Epistolary practices.DDC classification:
  • 816/.309 21
LOC classification:
  • PS417 .D43 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 18.06
Online resources:
Contents:
Abbreviations and Note on Quotations -- Burn This letter: Autograph Missive and Published Text -- I Have Taken This opportunity of Writing You a Few Lines: A Genre as Popularly Practiced -- I Cannot Write This Letter: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A Letter Always Seemed to Me Like Immortality: Emily Dickinson -- I Write Now d'Outre Tombe: Henry Adams -- Conclusion: Letter Writing in the Era of Telecommunications.
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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: Annotation Using letters written by John Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, and others, this book examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the postmodern period. Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index.

Abbreviations and Note on Quotations -- Burn This letter: Autograph Missive and Published Text -- I Have Taken This opportunity of Writing You a Few Lines: A Genre as Popularly Practiced -- I Cannot Write This Letter: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A Letter Always Seemed to Me Like Immortality: Emily Dickinson -- I Write Now d'Outre Tombe: Henry Adams -- Conclusion: Letter Writing in the Era of Telecommunications.

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Annotation Using letters written by John Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, and others, this book examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the postmodern period. Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion.

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