Studies in the cultural history of letter writing
By: edited by Linda C. Mitchell & Susan Green.
Contributors: Mitchell, Linda C.; Green, Susan, 1950-
Publisher: Huntington Library
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Marino, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780873282338
Subjects: Letter writing -- History; Letters -- History and criticism; English letters -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Distant relations: letters from America, 1492/1677 / William H. Sherman; title: Letter writing among the jesuits: Antonio Possevino's advice in the Bibliotheca Selecta (1593) / Grant Boswell; title: French letters and English anxiety in the seventeenth century / Lawrence D. Green; title: The manners of the page: prescription and practice in English letter writing / Sue Walker; title: The correspondence of Esther Masham and John Locke: a study in epistolary silences / Susan Whyman; title: Women's roles in the English epistolary tradition / Linda C. Mitchell; title: Tobias Smollett and the malevolent Philip Thicknesse: travel narratives, public rhetoric, and private letters / Amy Elizabeth Smith; title: Model letters, moral living: letter-writing manuals by Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson / Victoria Myers; title: Empire and occasional conformity: David Fordyce's complete letter-writer / Eve Tavor Bannet.