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\n 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\u2013three of America\u2019s most ambitious, accomplished, and theoretically astute letter writers. Finally, Decker considers the ongoing transformation of letter writing in the electronic age.<\/p>\n

Publisher \u200f : \u200e The University of North Carolina Press; New edition (November 16, 1998)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 304 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0807847437
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0807847435
Lexile measure \u200f : \u200e 1600L
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 1.01 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6.14 x 0.74 x 9.21 inches <\/p>\n

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