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Author:

Rotunno, Laura, 1971-

Title:

Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898 : readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture / Laura Rotunno, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Altoona, USA.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

ix, 208 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Communication in literature.
Postal service in literature.
Literatur.
Brief.
Post.
Englisch.
Großbritannien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-199) and index.

Contents:

Correspondence culture -- Mr. Micawber, letter-writing manuals, and Charles Dickens's literary professionals -- Feminized correspondence, the unknown public, and the egalitarian professional of Wilkie Collins's The woman in white -- From postmarks to literary professionalism in Anthony Trollope's John Caldigate -- Telegraphing literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's The sign of four -- Conclusion: Undelivered.

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

ISBN:

1137323795
9781137323798

OCLC:

(OCoLC)837143366

LCCN:

2013021609

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)