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Authors of their lives the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century /

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Hlavní autor: Gerber, David A., 1944-
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : New York University Press, c2006.
Témata:
British Americans > Correspondence.
British > Canada > Correspondence.
Immigrants > United States > Correspondence.
Immigrants > Canada > Correspondence.
Letter writing > History > 19th century.
Transnationalism > History > 19th century > Sources.
Immigrants' writings, American.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
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Obsah:
  • Traditions of inquiry
  • Forming selves in letters
  • Writing with a purpose : immigrant epistolarity and the culture of emigration
  • Using postal systems : transnational networks on the edge of modernity
  • Establishing voice, theme, and rhythm
  • When correspondence wanes
  • Thomas Spencer Niblock : a dialogue of respectability and failure
  • Catherine Grayston Bond : letter-writing as the practice of existential accounting
  • Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald : longing for her "little isle" from a farm in central New York
  • Dr. Thomas Steel : the difficulties of achieving the reunited family.

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