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Writing to the World : Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres /

In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the "bridge genre," which enables such change by transferring existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: King, Rachael Scarborough (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Circulating news : letters in manuscript and print, 1665-1695
  • Questions and answers : epistolary exchange and the early periodical press
  • Open letters : personal politics in the epistolary novel
  • A new world : biographical writing and epistolary evidence
  • Leaving "the world" : the decline of the epistolary novel from Burney to Austen.