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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... emotional terms. The material object of the personal letter is an intimate artifact of the letterwriter. The handwriting of absent loved ones that the recipients of letters in the nineteenth century, like those recipients more recently ...
... emotions. Memories may not always be pleasant ones, nor conversations always amicable, nor home always associated with security, let alone affection, for these memories to have a powerful hold on our consciousness of who we are ...
... emotions that fed the immigrant's existential hunger for continuity, nineteenth-century immigrants depended on the intimacy of personal correspondence.9 About the world of the immigrant's long-distance personal relationships we know ...
... emotional stake in their letters. They came eventually to understand that their letters must embody permanently their relationships with those who would not follow them to North America. The second context concerns the study's focus on ...
... emotionally laden source of recognition of difference was encounters with Irish Catholics, which called up to consciousness a rich heritage of British prejudices. Linda Colley's understanding of the origins of modern British national ...
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 |