Epistolary Practices

Author: William Merrill Decker
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0807847437

Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications

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. Get Epistolary Practices literature books for free.
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 Al Check Epistolary Practices our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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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 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 Al

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