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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... understanding the less immediately accessible psychological depths of the consciousness of immigrants. What we know ... understandings of who they are. We strive for continuity in our lives; personal identity depends on continuity. We ...
... understanding individual selves. The concept ethnicity is often asked to bear too many explanatory burdens, and thus crowds out other ways of understanding the consciousness and behavior of individuals labeled “ethnic.”8 Even surrounded ...
... understanding of imagined personal letters in 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 ...
... understandings and self-imposed standards: This is a study of the letters of English, Scottish, and Irish Protestant immigrants to both Canada and the United States. Of the seventy-one letter-series consulted, forty-three (58 percent) ...
... understanding letters and in greatly different questions about them, Erickson deleted some content that I would not have, had I edited the collection for publication.17 Whenever possible, I sought to find original letters rather than ...
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 |