The Converse of the Pen
Subtitle: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (Chicago Original Paperback)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: January 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780226706795
Subjects: Letters; Biography: general; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 18th century; Authors, English; Correspondence; English letters; English prose literature; History and criticism
First sentence: SAMUEL RICHARDSON takes us to the heart of the matter-to the cor of correspondence-and thereby addresses the principal subject of this book, the familiar letter as intimate conversation.