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Author:

Romani, Gabriella, author.

Title:

Postal culture : writing and reading letters in post-unification Italy / Gabriella Romani.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Communication and technology--Italy--History--19th century.
Postal service--Italy--History--19th century.
Written communication--Italy--History--19th century.
Letter writing--Italy--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Italy--History--19th century.
Italy--Social life and customs--19th century.
Italy--Civilization--19th century.
Verga, Giovanni,--1840-1922.--Storia di una capinera.
Serao, Matilde,--1856-1927--Criticism and interpretation.
Epistolary fiction, Italian--History and criticism.

Notes:

Appendix includes letters transcribed from Italian newspapers. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Postal culture after 1861 : an introduction -- Writing and reading letters : the nationalization of the Italian postal service, epistolary manuals, and the print media -- Fictionalizing the letter : Giovanni Verga's Storia di una capinera -- Coeur-responding with her readers : the sentimental politics of Matilde Serao's epistolary fiction.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies

ISBN:

1442647086 (bound)
9781442647084 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858716716

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)