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

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Autore principale: Gerber, David A., 1944-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : New York University Press, c2006.
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Sommario:
  • 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.