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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: King, Rachael Scarborough (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.