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Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860

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Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860 book

Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860

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Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860 book

BySharon M. Harris
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 6 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592251
Pages 290 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315592251
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Gaul, T. (Ed.), Harris, S. (2009). Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592251

This volume illustrates the significance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural developments. Rejecting the common categorization of letters as primarily private documents, this collection of essays demonstrates the genre's persistent public engagements with changing cultural dynamics of the revolutionary, early republican, and antebellum eras. Sections of the collection treat letters' implication in transatlanticism, authorship, and reform movements as well as the politics and practices of editing letters. The wide range of authors considered include Mercy Otis Warren, Charles Brockden Brown, members of the Emerson and Peabody families, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Stoddard, Catherine Brown, John Brown, and Harriet Jacobs. The volume is particularly relevant for researchers in U.S. literature and history, as well as women's writing and periodical studies. This dynamic collection offers scholars an exemplary template of new approaches for exploring an understudied yet critically important literary genre.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

ByTheresa Strouth Gaul, Sharon M. Harris

part |2 pages

Part I Letters and Transnationalism

chapter 1|18 pages

“A continual and almost exclusive correspondence” : Philip Mazzei’s Transatlantic Citizenship

chapter 2|22 pages

Letters on the Use of Letters in Narratives: Catharine Macaulay, Susannah Rowson, and the Warren-Adams Correspondence

ByEve Tavor Bannet

chapter 3|20 pages

Anticipating Colonialism: U.S. Letters on Puerto Rico and Cuba, 1831-1835

ByIvonne M. García

part |2 pages

Part II Letters and Authorship

chapter 4|20 pages

The Authentic Fictional Letters of Charles Brockden Brown

chapter 5|18 pages

Keys to “the labyrinth of my own being”: Margaret Fuller’s Epistolary Invention of the Self

chapter 6|20 pages

“Two single married women”: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stoddard and Margaret Sweat, 1851-1854

ByJennifer Putzi

part |2 pages

Part III Letters and Periodicals

chapter 7|22 pages

Cherokee Catharine Brown’sEpistolary Performances

chapter 8|18 pages

“Does such a being exist?”: Olive Branch Readers Respond to Fanny Fern

ByFanny Fern Bonnie Carr O’Neill

chapter 9|18 pages

Dr. Mary Walker and the Economies of Letter Writing

chapter 10|24 pages

A �ess �ostly Ink�� �ohn Brown�s Prison Letters and the Traditions of American Protest Literature

ByZoe Trodd

part |2 pages

Part IV Letters and Twenty-First Century Editions

chapter 11|16 pages

A�thorship, Network, �e�t�ality�� Editing �ercy �tis �arren�s

ByLetters Jeffrey H. Richards

chapter 12|10 pages

�he �e��est of a �ine�� �n Editing Harriet �acobs�s ��ife Among the Contrabands”

ByScott M. Korb

chapter 13|20 pages

Edited Letter Collections as Epistolary Fictions: Imagining African American Women’s History in Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends

ByLinda M. Grasso
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