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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... Epistolary Ethics: Personal Correspondence and the Culture of Emigration in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of American Ethnic History 19 (Summer 2000): 3–23. “Theories and Lives: Transnationalism and the Conceptualization of ...
... epistolary fiction is just as relevant for conceiving the personal correspondence of historical subjects: what needs to be plotted is the relationship the correspondents seek to maintain through corresponding, not their often relatively ...
... epistolary history does not seem to be a useful ground for thinking about the letters of immigrants. That model has a certain narrative tidiness to recommend it, for it may be neatly conceived in terms of a beginning, middle, and end ...
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... epistolary relationship in order to understand how an interpersonal relationship may take form in letters, and how letters work to fulfill, or, as was sometimes the case fail to fulfill, the aspirations and needs of the correspondents ...
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 |