TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernier,Celeste-Marie
AU  - Allen,Judith A.
AU  - Anesko,Michael
AU  - Barnard,Philip
AU  - Bernier,Celeste-Marie
AU  - Bray,Robert
AU  - Dunlavy Valenti,Patricia
AU  - Fagg,John
AU  - Floyd,Janet
AU  - Folsom,Ed
AU  - Fraser,Rebecca J.
AU  - Freedman,Linda
AU  - Gianquitto,Tina
AU  - Greenham,David
AU  - Halliwell,Martin
AU  - Hayes,Kevin J.
AU  - Henkin,David M.
AU  - Henle,Alea
AU  - Hewitt,Elizabeth
AU  - Homestead,Melissa J.
AU  - Hunter,Christopher A.
AU  - Jackson,Leon
AU  - John,Richard R.
AU  - Jonik,Michael
AU  - Ka-May Cheng,Eileen
AU  - Kelley,Wyn
AU  - Lueck,Beth L.
AU  - Meer,Sarah
AU  - Merrill Decker,William
AU  - Messent,Peter
AU  - Moreton,Emma
AU  - Nerio,Magdalena
AU  - Newman,Judie
AU  - Onuf,Peter S.
AU  - Orban,Maria
AU  - Orr,John C.
AU  - Pethers,Matthew
AU  - Petrino,Elizabeth A.
AU  - Robbins,Sarah R.
AU  - Round,Phillip H.
AU  - Schachterle,Lance
AU  - Schiller,Ben
AU  - Stewart,David M.
AU  - Storey,Mark
AU  - Sweeney,Fionnghuala
AU  - Thompson,Graham
AU  - Vandome,Robin
AU  - Weir,Rebecca
AU  - Zakim,Michael
TI  - The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
T2  - Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
SN  - 9780748692934
AV  - PE1481 .E45 2016
U1  - 816.309 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - American letters
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - United States
KW  - Letter writing
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Provides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writingGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692927','ISBN:9780748692934','ISBN:9780748692941']);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 FeaturesDraws 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 contextsMethodologically expansive, intellectually interrogative chapters based on original research by leading academicsOffers 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"
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748692934
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748692934
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748692934/original
ER  -