{"id":35415,"date":"2023-03-01T23:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shoppingdealer.com\/?p=35415"},"modified":"2023-03-01T23:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:57:25","slug":"epistolary-practices-letter-writing-in-america-before-telecommunications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shoppingdealer.com\/?p=35415","title":{"rendered":"Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81n6qaV5urL.jpg\" class=\"wp_automatic_gallery\" \/><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">[price_with_discount]<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of [price_update_date] &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/0807847437?tag=e038-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/ISRHEWs.png?w=720&#038;ssl=1\"><\/a><br \/>\n[ad_1]<br \/>\n  Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography and<br \/>history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions<br \/>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<br \/>postmodern period. <br \/> After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of<br \/>space, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters<br \/>written by such well-known and well-educated persons as John<br \/>Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John<br \/>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&#8211;three of America&#8217;s most ambitious, accomplished, and theoretically astute letter writers. Finally, Decker considers the ongoing transformation of letter writing in the electronic age.<\/p>\n<p> Publisher                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 The University of North Carolina Press; New edition (November 16, 1998) <br \/> Language                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 English <br \/> Paperback                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 304 pages <br \/> ISBN-10                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 0807847437 <br \/> ISBN-13                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 978-0807847435 <br \/> Lexile measure                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 1600L <br \/> Item Weight                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 1.01 pounds <br \/> Dimensions                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 6.14 x 0.74 x 9.21 inches <\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] &#8211; Details) [ad_1] Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography andhistory, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensionshave only recently attracted serious notice. 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