Correspondence and American Literature, 17701865 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521842556
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Letter writing in literature; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American literature; 19th century; History and criticism; Letter writing; United States
First sentence: In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001, another terror spread through the United States, as anxieties about biological weapons being delivered by post in private letters turned the innocuous act of mail receipt and delivery into a site of terror and a potential act of terrorism.