TY  - BOOK
AU  - Decker,William Merrill
TI  - Epistolary practices: letter writing in America before telecommunications 
SN  - 0807866636
AV  - PS417 .D43 1998eb
U1  - 816/.309 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - American letters
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Letter writing
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS
KW  - Letters
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Amerikaans
KW  - gtt
KW  - Brieven
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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