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Bernier, Celeste-Marie, editor.
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Newman, Judie, editor.
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Pethers, Matthew, editor.
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United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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USA gnd |
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1800-1899 fast |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast |
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History fast |
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9780748692934 |
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0748692932 |
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0748692940 |
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9780748692941 |
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1 online resource (viii, 744 pages) |
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Letter writing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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American letters -- History and criticism.
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| Contents |
Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies and nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing / Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, and Matthew Pethers -- Material, social, and institutional contexts. From mind to hand : paper, pens, and the materiality of letter-writing / Graham Thompson -- The business of letter-writing / Michael Zakim -- Name and address : letters and mass mailing in nineteenth-century America / David M. Henkin -- Paper evidence : handwriting, print, letters, and the law / Christopher A. Hunter -- Nineteenth-century American science and the decline of letters / Robin Vandome -- The means and the end : letters and the work of history / Alea Henle -- Letters, telegrams, news / Richard R. John -- Dead letters and the secret life of the state in nineteenth-century America / Matthew Pethers -- The spider and the dumpling : threatening letters in nineteenth-century America / Leon Jackson -- Travel, migration, and dislocation. Longing in long-distance letters : the nineteenth century and now / William Merrill Decker -- Working away, writing home / David M. Stewart -- Letters from America : themes and methods in the study of Irish emigrant correspondence / Emma Moreton -- The usual problems : sickness, distance, and failure to acculturate in mid-nineteenth-century emigrant letters / Janet Floyd -- Indigenous epistolarity in the nineteenth century / Phillip H. Round -- Dueling epistles : enslaved letter-writers and the discourse of (dis)honor / Ben Schiller -- Home and belonging in the letters of Sarah Hicks Williams / Rebecca J. Fraser -- 'An oblique place' : letters in the Civil War / Rebecca Weir -- Social action in cross-regional letter-writing : Ednah Cheney's correspondence with postbellum teachers in the U.S. South / Sarah R. Robbins -- Politics, reform, and intellectual life. Founding friendship : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the American experiment in republican government, 1812-26 / Peters S. Onuf -- Corresponding natures : Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters / David Greenham -- 'This epistolary medium' : friendship and civil society in Margaret Fuller's private letters / Magdalena Nerio -- 'Will you live'? : Thoreau's philosophical letters / Michael Jonik -- 'Frederick Douglass, the freeman' and 'Frederick Bailey, the slave' : private versus public acts and arts of letter-writing in Frederick Douglass's pre-Civil-War correspondence / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Old master letters and Letters from the old world : Julia Griffiths and the uses of correspondence in Frederick Douglass's newspapers / Sarah Meer -- Letters from 'Linda Brent' : Harriet Jacobs and the work of emancipation / Fionnghuala Sweeney -- Abraham Lincoln : the man through the letters / Robert Bray -- Between science and aesthetics : the letters of William James / Martin Halliwell -- 'My dear Dr.' : American women and nineteenth-century scientific correspondence / Tina Gianquitto -- 'A chain of correspondence' : social activism and civic vales in the letters of Lydia Sigourney / Elizabeth A. Petrino -- A fighting platform : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's epistles / Judith A. Allen -- 'The stamp of truth' : historiographical dissent and its limits in the letters of Jared Sparks / Eileen Ka-May Cheng -- Defenses and masks and poses in Henry Adams' letters / John C. Orr -- Literary culture. The letters of Charles Brockden Brown : epistolary performance and new paths for scholarship / Philip Barnard -- Publishing and public affairs in the correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper / Lance Schachterle -- The transatlantic village : the rise and fall of the epistolary friendship of Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Mary Russell Mitford / Melissa J. Homestead -- The literary professional and the country gentleman : the letters of Edgar Allan Poe and Philip Pendleton Cooke / Kevin J. Hayes -- Melville's flummery / Wyn Kelley -- The epistolary romance and rivalry of Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne / Patricia Dunlavy Valenti -- Co-responding with Walt Whitman / Ed Folsom -- 'Rare sparkles of light' : intimacy and distance in Emily Dickinson's letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson / Linda Freedman -- 'Soul friends' : Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lady Byron in correspondence / Beth L. Lueck -- Louisa May Alcott's family post box / Judie Newman -- Profanities, indecencies, and theologies : Mark Twain's letters to Joseph Twichell, William Dean Howells, and Henry Rogers / Peter Messent -- Charles W. Chestnutt's letters : 'the vaguely defined line where races meet' / Maria Orban -- Sarah Orne Jewett's foreign correspondence / Mark Storey -- 'Too intimate to publish, too rare to suppress' : Henry James in his letters / Michael Anesko -- 'Ill correspondent' : Stephen Crane's trouble with letters / John Fagg. |
| Summary |
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. Key Features. Draws together different emphases on the intellectual, literary and social uses of letter writing Provides students and researchers with a means to situate letters in their wider theoretical and historical contexts Methodologically expansive, intellectually interrogative chapters based on original research by leading academics Offers new insights into the lives and careers of Louisa May Alcott, Charles Brockden Brown, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe, among many others |
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Series from publisher's Web site. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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[Edinburgh companions to literature]
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Edinburgh companions to literature.
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