Empire of Letters By Eve Tavor Bannet 9780521856188 (Hardback)

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Literary studies: general

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Cambridge university press

Empire of Letters : Cambridge University Press : 9780521856188 : 0521856183 : 01 Dec 2006 : Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth century, English, Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which helped to connect and unify different regions of the British Atlantic world, even as they fostered and helped to create very different local and regional cultures and values. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people knew then about letters that we have forgotten, and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century letters, novels, periodicals, and other kinds of writing in manuscript and print which used the letter form.

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