{"product_id":"the-edinburgh-companion-to-nineteenth-century-american-letters-and-letter-writing-paperback","title":"The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCeleste-Marie Bernier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJudie Newman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Pethers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws together different emphases on the intellectual, literary and social uses of letter writing \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides students and researchers with a means to situate letters in their wider theoretical and historical contexts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMethodologically expansive, intellectually interrogative chapters based on original research by leading academics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers new insights into the lives and careers of Louisa May Alcott, Charles Brockden Brown, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe, among many others\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writing 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. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties. Methodologically expansive, with intellectually interrogative chapters based on original research by leading academics, this book offers new insights into the lives and careers of Louisa May Alcott, Charles Brockden Brown, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe, among many others. Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of African American Studies at the University of Nottingham. Judie Newman, OBE, is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. Matthew Pethers is an Associate Professor in American Intellectual and Cultural History at the University of Nottingham.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCeleste-Marie Bernier is Professor of Black Studies and Personal Chair in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Visual Arts\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCharacters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSuffering and Sunset; World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art (1965-2015)\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudie Newman, OBE, is a former Chair of the British Association for American Studies, a Founding Fellow of the English Association, the recipient of the Arthur Miller Prize in American Studies, and Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Pethers is an Associate Professor in American Intellectual and Cultural History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on the literary history, print culture, performative arts and scientific thought of eighteenth and nineteenth-century America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 752\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42120132198535,"sku":"9781399508865","price":104.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/29c47cf5d257e6d3cef230b284624a8a.webp?v=1732545371","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-edinburgh-companion-to-nineteenth-century-american-letters-and-letter-writing-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}