Eve Tavor Bannet

Empire of Letters

Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680 1820

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read and interpret eighteenth-century letters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780521123525
• ISBN-10: 0521123526
• Artikelnr.: 28107892

Autorenporträt

Eve Tavor Bannet is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I. Letter Manuals and Eighteenth-Century Letteracy: Introduction
1. Empire of letters
2. Manual architectonics
Part II. Letter Manuals in Britain and America: Introduction
3. Secretaries at the turn of the eighteenth century
4. The complete letter-writers of the middle years
5. The art of correspondence, 1790-1820
Part III. Secrecy and the Transatlantic Culture of Letters: Introduction
6. Public and hidden transcripts
7. From Crevecoeur to Franklin and Mr. Spectator
Bibliography.