Epistolary selves : letters and letter-writers, 1600-1945 / / edited by Rebecca Earle

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations, photograph
• Disciplina: 809.6
• Soggetto topico: Letters - History and criticism; Letter writing - History
• Altri autori: EarleRebecca
• Note generali: First published 1999 by Ashgate.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The letter collection -- pt. 2. Letters, the family and public life -- pt. 3. Women and the letter form.
• Sommario/riassunto: From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma.
• Titolo autorizzato: Epistolary selves
• ISBN: 1-351-93928-9; 0-367-88820-3; 1-315-25618-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154979703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Warwick studies in the humanities.