Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865

Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealized mode through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vit...

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topic American literature
History and criticism
Letter writing in literature
Epistolary poetry
spellingShingle American literature
History and criticism
Letter writing in literature
Epistolary poetry
Hewitt, Elizabeth
Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865
description Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealized mode through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vital technology of social intercourse in the nineteenth century and was adopted as an exemplary genre in which authors
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