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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... narrative—an identity narrative—of relations to places and people upon which such knowledge depends.5 An important source of personal identity is our relationships to those with whom we share the oldest of such relationships. The ...
... narrative devices, such as tragedy, comedy, and the epic.10 Elizabeth J. MacArthur's understanding of imagined personal letters in epistolary fiction is just as relevant for conceiving the personal correspondence of historical subjects ...
... narrative, and they were most often too pressed for time to write well-crafted propaganda. The impression is not simply that the author had an axe to grind, which he freely and explicitly admitted, but rather that he radically trimmed ...
... narrative rather than analytical expositions, but they are intended to serve as case-studies that develop the analysis established in Part I. In framing immigrant letter-writing through case studies, the study returns to an ...
... narratives, or to document societal-level and group-level generalizations based on other primary sources, social science theory, or manipulation of aggregate data taken from published, mostly official, sources, such as census records. A ...
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 |