Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2018
Author
Language
English
Number of Pages
259 pp.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore, MD
Chronological Period
ISBN
9781421425481
Annotation

Examines transition from manuscript to print media and the emergence of new genres; the newspaper, the periodical, the novel, and the biography. 

Contents: 

  • Circulating News: Letters in Manuscript and Print, 1665-1695
  • Questions and Answers: Epistolary Exchange and the Early Periodical Press
  • Open Letters: Personal Politics in the Epistolary Novel
  • A New World: Biographical Writing and Epistolary Evidences
  • Leaving "the World": The Decline of the Epistolary Novel from Burney to Austen Postscript Bibliographical Essay
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