{"product_id":"epistolary-practices-letter-writing-in-america-before-telecommunications-9780807847435","title":"Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America Before Telecommunications","description":"Letters 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\u003e After 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Merrill Decker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 5.74w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807847435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecker, William Merrill:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - William 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","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43219222069363,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":93.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_559bed60-b96f-4adf-80a8-5508e9b70592.jpg?v=1753531914","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/epistolary-practices-letter-writing-in-america-before-telecommunications-9780807847435","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}