Postal Culture : : Writing and Reading Letters in Post-Unification Italy / / Gabriella Romani.
The nationalization of the postal service in Italy transformed post-unification letter writing as a cultural medium. Both a harbinger of progress and an expanded, more efficient means of circulating information, the national postal service served as a bridge between the private world of personal com...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART I
- 1. Postal Culture after 1861: An Introduction
- 2. Writing and Reading Letters: The Nationalization of the Italian Postal Service, Epistolary Manuals, and the Print Media
- PART II
- 3. Fictionalizing the Letter: Giovanni Verga's Storia di una capinera
- 4. Coeur-responding with Her Readers: The Sentimental Politics of Matilde Serao's Epistolary Fiction
- 5. Conclusion
- APPENDIX: Letters Transcribed from Newspapers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index