The pen and the people
Subtitle: English letter writers 1660-1800
By: Susan E. Whyman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780199532445
Subjects: English letters -- History and criticism; Letter writing -- History -- 18th century; England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; England -- Civilization -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creating a culture of letters. Introduction : the pen, the post, and the people; title: Creating the letter : how to acquire epistolary literacy; title: Sending the letter : the post office and the politics of the mail; title: Creating a culture of literacy. Letters and literacy : farmers and workers in northern England; title: Letters of the middling sort : confronting problems of business, religion, gender, and class; title: From letters to literature. Letter-writing and the rise of the novel : the epistolary literacy of Jane Johnson and Samuel Richardson; title: Letter-writing, reading, and literary culture : the Johnson family and Anna Miller; title: Conclusion : letter-writing and eighteenth-century culture : findings, patterns, and impacts.