Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age

2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition Romantic letters are central to understanding queer history. Debates about letters of "romantic friendship," however, too often reduce them to unstudied expressions of heartfelt feeling. In Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age , Pamela VanHaitsma shows how the genre should be understood as a learned form of rhetoric. VanHaitsma argues that epistolar