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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... writers will have opinions, and explicitly slant their testimonies to make a point. But what is not said, to the ... writer. Complete candor, for example, about the difficulties of emigration and resettlement, such as the rigors or ...
... writer for misleading them. A flat, impersonal tone and the single-minded development of only one theme—emigration ... writing were too preoccupied with ordinary subject matter out of the daily life to write narrative, and they were ...
... Writing in 1929, Stephenson contended that since immigration history already possessed enough particularized ... writing in 1984, the immigrant letter represents an antidote to a pervasive structuralism that denies the “human dimension ...
... writing.40 Such products of human thought and creativity as immigrant letters are mediated in complex ways. The nature and extent of the mediation that forms the consciousness of the letter-writing immigrant is apparent when we examine ...
... writing. Fender discovered that his inspiration was, in fact, a recent speech given by Washington Irving which had been reported widely in the press only two days before Fisher wrote a letter to his brothers, and which Fisher quoted ...
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 |