This volume illustrates the significance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural develo

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 n

When North and South went to war, millions of American families endured their first long separation. For men in the armies—and their wives, children, parents,

The recently developed field of transatlantic literary studies has encouraged scholars to move beyond national literatures towards an examination of communicati

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