Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth CenturyNYU Press, 2006 - 422 pages 2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award |
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... cultural spaces in the service of improving their opportunities for material security (and perhaps even prosperity) and hence for greater personal independence and, on whatever terms they defined it, social respectability. These largely ...
... transnational phenomenon, a unique cultural location in which correspondents may form a relationship that uses state postal systems to transcend national boundaries. The relationship they maintain is neither here nor there, Introduction | ...
... assimilation of these British Protestant immigrants in Canada and the United States suggests their close cultural similarity to the core AngloAmerican people they settled among. In consequence, it could be argued Introduction | 13.
... cultural diversity around them, they do not reflect much on the meanings of this pluralism or on their place within it. But in bringing them into contact with people unlike themselves and, especially in the American context, a public ...
... cultural terms: in the United States, the British compared themselves to white Americans, and in Canada, they compared themselves, whether Scots, Irish Protestants, or English, to one another and to the descendants of the American ...
Table des matières
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3 Writing with a Purpose | 92 |
4 Using Postal Systems | 140 |
5 Establishing Voice Theme and Rhythm | 162 |
6 When Correspondence Wanes | 201 |
7 Thomas Spencer Niblock | 230 |
8 Catherine Grayston Bond | 257 |
9 Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald | 281 |
10 Dr Thomas Steel | 309 |
Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted | 337 |
Notes | 339 |
Collections of Letters Consulted | 399 |
Index | 403 |