The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and 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
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Edinburgh University Press
2016
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Intro
- Prologue: Networks of Nineteenth-Century Letter-Writing
- Introduction: Epistolary Studies and Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
- Part I: Material, Social, and Institutional Contexts
- 1 From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens, and the Materiality of Letter-Writing
- 2 The Business of Letter-Writing
- 3 Name and Address: Letters and Mass Mailing in Nineteenth-Century America
- 4 Paper Evidence: Handwriting, Print, Letters, and the Law
- 5 Nineteenth-Century American Science and the Decline of Letters
- 6 The Means and the End: Letters and the Work of History
- 7 Letters, Telegrams, News
- 8 Dead Letters and the Secret Life of the State in Nineteenth-Century America
- 9 The Spider and the Dumpling: Threatening Letters in Nineteenth-Century America
- Part II: Travel, Migration, and Dislocation
- 10 Longing in Long-Distance Letters: The Nineteenth Century and Now
- 11 Working Away, Writing Home
- 12 Letters from America: Themes and Methods in the Study of Irish Emigrant Correspondence
- 13 The Usual Problems: Sickness, Distance, and Failure to Acculturate in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Letters
- 14 Indigenous Epistolarity in the Nineteenth Century
- 15 Dueling Epistles: Enslaved Letter-Writers and the Discourse of (Dis)Honor
- 16 Home and Belonging in the Letters of Sarah Hicks Williams
- 17 'An Oblique Place': Letters in the Civil War
- 18 Social Action in Cross-Regional Letter-Writing: Ednah Cheney's Correspondence with Postbellum Teachers in the U.S. South
- Part III: Politics, Reform, and Intellectual Life
- 19 Founding Friendship: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Experiment in Republican Government, 1812-26
- 20 Corresponding Natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Letters
- 21 'This Epistolary Medium': Friendship and Civil Society in Margaret Fuller's Private Letters
- 22 'Will You live?': Thoreau's Philosophical Letters
- 23 'Frederick Douglass, the Freeman' and 'Frederick Bailey, the Slave': Private versus Public Acts and Arts of Letter-Writing in Frederick Douglass's Pre-Civil-War Correspondence
- 24 Old Master Letters and Letters from the Old World: Julia Griffiths and the Uses of Correspondence in Frederick Douglass's Newspapers
- 25 Letters from 'Linda Brent': Harriet Jacobs and the Work of Emancipation
- 26 Abraham Lincoln: The Man through His Letters
- 27 Between Science and Aesthetics: The Letters of William James
- 28 'My Dear Dr.': American Women and Nineteenth-Century Scientific Correspondence
- 29 'A Chain of Correspondence': Social Activism and Civic Values in the Letters of Lydia Sigourney
- 30 A Fighting Platform: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Epistles
- 31 'The Stamp of Truth': Historiographical Dissent and Its Limits in the Letters of Jared Sparks
- 32 Defenses and Masks and Poses in Henry Adams' Letters
- Part IV: Literary Culture
- 33 The Letters of Charles Brockden Brown: Epistolary Performance and New Paths for Scholarship
- 34 Publishing and Public Affairs in the Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper
- 35 The Transatlantic Village: The Rise and Fall of the Epistolary Friendship of Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Mary Russell Mitford
- 36 The Literary Professional and the Country Gentleman: The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe and Philip Pendleton Cooke
- 37 Melville's Flummery
- 38 The Epistolary Romance and Rivalry of Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 39 Co-Responding with Walt Whitman
- 40 'Rare Sparkles of Light': Intimacy and Distance in Emily Dickinson's Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- 41 'Soul Friends': Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lady Byron in Correspondence
- 42 Louisa May Alcott's Family Post Box
- 43 Profanities, Indecencies, and Theologies: Mark Twain's Letters to Joseph Twichell, William Dean Howells, and Henry Rogers
- 44 Charles W. Chesnutt's Letters: 'The Vaguely Defi ned Line Where Races Meet'
- 45 Sarah Orne Jewett's Foreign Correspondence
- 46 'Too Intimate to Publish, Too Rare to Suppress': Henry James in his Letters
- 47 'Ill Correspondent': Stephen Crane's Trouble with Letters
- Notes on Contributors
- Index