{"product_id":"epistolary-practices-letter-writing-in-america-before-telecommunications-paperback","title":"Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America Before Telecommunications - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Merrill Decker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetters have long been read as primary sources for biography and\u003cbr\u003ehistory, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions\u003cbr\u003ehave only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the\u003cbr\u003epostmodern period.\u003cbr\u003eAfter offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of\u003cbr\u003espace, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters\u003cbr\u003ewritten by such well-known and well-educated persons as John\u003cbr\u003eWinthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John\u003cbr\u003eAdams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Clemens, Henry James, and Alice James, but also letters by persons who, except in their correspondence, were not writers at all: indentured servants, New England factory workers, slaves, soldiers, and Western pioneers. Individual chapters explore the letter writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and Henry Adams -- three of America's most ambitious, accomplished, and theoretically astute letter writers. Finally, Decker considers the ongoing transformation of letter writing in the electronic age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing letters written by John Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, and others, this book examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the postmodern period. Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Merrill Decker, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Vocation of Henry Adams\u003c\/i\u003e, is director of undergraduate programs in English at Oklahoma State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9.25 x 5.74 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53193088205107,"sku":"9780807847435","price":96.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/6EZah_r9xz9780807847435.webp?v=1775108930","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/epistolary-practices-letter-writing-in-america-before-telecommunications-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}