The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing

Provides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writing GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692927','ISBN:9780748692934','ISBN:9780748692941']); This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field—the history of letters and letter writing—is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive pos