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Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898 : readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : 單行本
副題名:	readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture
作者:	RotunnoLaura, 1971-
出版地:	New York
出版者:	Palgrave Macmillan;
出版年:	2013
面頁冊數:	1 online resource
標題:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century -
標題:	Communication in literature. -
標題:	Postal service in literature. -
標題:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh -
電子資源:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137323804
附註:	Description based on print version record
摘要註:	By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. By examining a variety of works from authors including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, "Postal Plots" addresses why. It explores how Victorian postal reforms encouraged the lower and middle classes to read and write, allowed them some social and political agency, and led many to literature. The writers born of postal reforms increased stratification between Victorian novelists, already struggling to define themselves as literary professionals. The reform-inspired readers threatened the novelists' development by flouting distinctions between high and low literature. Letters in Victorian novels thus become markers of the novelists' concerns about the hierarchies and mediocrities that threatened Victorian fiction's artistic progress and social contribution. "Postal Plots" explores Victorian literary professionals' conflict between their support for liberal ideals in the literary marketplace and their fear that they would be unable to bring those changes to pass.
ISBN:	9781137323804electronic bk.
ISBN:	1137323809electronic bk.
內容註:	Correspondence culture Mr. Micawber, letter-writing manuals, and Charles Dickens's literary professionals Feminized correspondence, the unknown public, and the egalitarian professional of Wilkie Collins's The woman in white From postmarks to literary professionalism in Anthony Trollope's John Caldigate Telegraphing literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's The sign of four Conclusion: Undelivered.

Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898 : readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture
Rotunno, Laura

Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898 : readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture / Laura Rotunno, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Altoona, USA. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 1 online resource.
Correspondence culture.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9781137323804ISBN 1137323809
English fictionCommunication in literature.Postal service in literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh -- History and criticism. -- 19th century

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