The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing.

• Superior document: Edinburgh Companions to Literature Series
• Author: Bernier, Celeste-Marie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Newman, Judie.; Pethers, Matthew.
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2016.; Ã2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (753 pages)

This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field--the history of letters and letter writing--is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature.

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Prologue: Networks of Nineteenth-Century Letter-Writing
• Introduction: Epistolary Studies and Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
• Part I: Material, Social, and Institutional Contexts
• 1 From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens, and the Materiality of Letter-Writing
• 2 The Business of Letter-Writing
• 3 Name and Address: Letters and Mass Mailing in Nineteenth-Century America
• 4 Paper Evidence: Handwriting, Print, Letters, and the Law
• 5 Nineteenth-Century American Science and the Decline of Letters
• 6 The Means and the End: Letters and the Work of History
• 7 Letters, Telegrams, News
• 8 Dead Letters and the Secret Life of the State in Nineteenth-Century America
• 9 The Spider and the Dumpling: Threatening Letters in Nineteenth-Century America
• Part II: Travel, Migration, and Dislocation
• 10 Longing in Long-Distance Letters: The Nineteenth Century and Now
• 11 Working Away, Writing Home
• 12 Letters from America: Themes and Methods in the Study of Irish Emigrant Correspondence
• 13 The Usual Problems: Sickness, Distance, and Failure to Acculturate in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Letters
• 14 Indigenous Epistolarity in the Nineteenth Century
• 15 Dueling Epistles: Enslaved Letter-Writers and the Discourse of (Dis)Honor
• 16 Home and Belonging in the Letters of Sarah Hicks Williams
• 17 'An Oblique Place': Letters in the Civil War
• 18 Social Action in Cross-Regional Letter-Writing: Ednah Cheney's Correspondence with Postbellum Teachers in the U.S. South
• Part III: Politics, Reform, and Intellectual Life
• 19 Founding Friendship: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Experiment in Republican Government, 1812-26
• 20 Corresponding Natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Letters
• 21 'This Epistolary Medium': Friendship and Civil Society in Margaret Fuller's Private Letters.
• 22 'Will You live?': Thoreau's Philosophical Letters
• 23 'Frederick Douglass, the Freeman' and 'Frederick Bailey, the Slave': Private versus Public Acts and Arts of Letter-Writing in Frederick Douglass's Pre-Civil-War Correspondence
• 24 Old Master Letters and Letters from the Old World: Julia Griffiths and the Uses of Correspondence in Frederick Douglass's Newspapers
• 25 Letters from 'Linda Brent': Harriet Jacobs and the Work of Emancipation
• 26 Abraham Lincoln: The Man through His Letters
• 27 Between Science and Aesthetics: The Letters of William James
• 28 'My Dear Dr.': American Women and Nineteenth-Century Scientific Correspondence
• 29 'A Chain of Correspondence': Social Activism and Civic Values in the Letters of Lydia Sigourney
• 30 A Fighting Platform: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Epistles
• 31 'The Stamp of Truth': Historiographical Dissent and Its Limits in the Letters of Jared Sparks
• 32 Defenses and Masks and Poses in Henry Adams' Letters
• Part IV: Literary Culture
• 33 The Letters of Charles Brockden Brown: Epistolary Performance and New Paths for Scholarship
• 34 Publishing and Public Affairs in the Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper
• 35 The Transatlantic Village: The Rise and Fall of the Epistolary Friendship of Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Mary Russell Mitford
• 36 The Literary Professional and the Country Gentleman: The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe and Philip Pendleton Cooke
• 37 Melville's Flummery
• 38 The Epistolary Romance and Rivalry of Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 39 Co-Responding with Walt Whitman
• 40 'Rare Sparkles of Light': Intimacy and Distance in Emily Dickinson's Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• 41 'Soul Friends': Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lady Byron in Correspondence
• 42 Louisa May Alcott's Family Post Box.
• 43 Profanities, Indecencies, and Theologies: Mark Twain's Letters to Joseph Twichell, William Dean Howells, and Henry Rogers
• 44 Charles W. Chesnutt's Letters: 'The Vaguely Defi ned Line Where Races Meet'
• 45 Sarah Orne Jewett's Foreign Correspondence
• 46 'Too Intimate to Publish, Too Rare to Suppress': Henry James in his Letters
• 47 'Ill Correspondent': Stephen Crane's Trouble with Letters
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.