Epistolary selves

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"This volume of 10 essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material. The contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight viewing letters as texts which can reveal information not only about their writers and readers, but also about the wider historical context in which they were written." "Rebecca Earle provides an overview of how the study of letter-writing can open up new avenues of historical as well as literary investigation. This, together with contributions from leading international scholars, makes Epistolary Selves an essential text for those researching the letter genre."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Letters,  History and criticism,  Congresses,  Letter writing,  History,  Lettres (Genre littéraire),  Histoire et critique,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Literary,  Brief,  Brieven