L. Rotunno

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Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898 (eBook, PDF)

Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture

Beschreibung

By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.

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Autor

Laura Rotunno is Associate Professor of English at Penn State Altoona, USA, where she is also the Honors Program Coordinator. She has published in Victorian Literature and Culture and Victorian Periodicals Review. Her research interests include professionalization and education as it developed throughout the Victorian period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137323804
• Artikelnr.: 39288117

Rezensionen

''Postal Plots sheds light on the significance of letters in Victorian fiction by firmly rooting them in social contexts and offering a range of stimulating close readings.'' - The Review of English Studies