The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing - Bog - Paperback

The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing

Provides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writing 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..