Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America Before TelecommunicationsUniv of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 285 pages 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 i |
Contents
Autograph Missive and Published Text I | 18 |
Chapter 2 I Have Taken This Opportunity of Writing You a Few Lines A Genre as Popularly Practiced | 57 |
Chapter 3I Cannot Write This Letter | 104 |
Chapter4 A Letter Always Seemed to Me Like Immortality | 141 |
Henry Adams | 176 |
Conclusion Letter Writing in the Era of Telecommunications | 229 |
Notes | 243 |
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