Epistolary practices

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After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters written by such well-known and well-educated persons as John Winthrop, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Samuel Clemens.



Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography and history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions have only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the postmodern period. After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters written by such well-known and well-educated persons as John Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Clemens, Henry James, and Alice James, but also letters by persons who, except in their correspondence, were not writers at all: indentured servants, New England factory workers, slaves, soldiers, and Western pioneers. Individual chapters explore the letter writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and Henry Adams--three of America's most ambitious, accomplished, and theoretically astute letter writers. Finally, Decker considers the ongoing transformation of letter writing in the electronic age.

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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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 november 1998

Aantal pagina's: 304

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: William Merrill Decker

Hoofduitgeverij: The University Of North Carolina Press

Editie: New edition

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 146 mm

Product hoogte: 21 mm

Product lengte: 235 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 241 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 481 g

EAN: 9780807847435

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