Empire of Letters - Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680-1820

Informationen zum Autor Eve Tavor Bannet is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Klappentext Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth century! English! Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which helped to connect and unify different regions of the British Atlantic world. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people knew then about letters that we have forgotten! and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century letters! novels! periodicals! and other genres that used the letter form. This lively! interdisciplinary book will change the way we read eighteenth-century letters and think about the book in the Atlantic world. Zusammenfassung Among the most frequently reprinted books of the eighteenth century! letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which connected and unified the British Atlantic world. Eve Tavor Bannet's lively! interdisciplinary book will change the way we read eighteenth-century letters and think about the book in the Atlantic world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue; Part I. Letter Manuals and Eighteenth-Century Letteracy: Introduction; 1. Empire of letters; 2. Manual architectonics; Part II. Letter Manuals in Britain and America: Introduction; 3. Secretaries at the turn of the eighteenth century; 4. The complete letter-writers of the middle years; 5. The art of correspondence, 1790-1820; Part III. Secrecy and the Transatlantic Culture of Letters: Introduction; 6. Public and hidden transcripts; 7. From Crevecoeur to Franklin and Mr. Spectator; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Eve Tavor Bannet, Eve Tavor (University of Oklahoma) Bannet
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2006
• EAN: 9780521856188
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85618-8
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form