Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898 [electronic resource] : Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture /
Rotunno, L.author.
By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.
Literature, Modern.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.