Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898
Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture
Authors: Rotunno, L.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Reviews
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''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
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Correspondence Culture
Pages 1-44
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Mr Micawber, Letter-Writing Manuals, and Charles Dickens’s Literary Professionals
Pages 45-68
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Feminized Correspondence, the Unknown Public, and the Egalitarian Professional of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White
Pages 69-93
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From Postmarks to Literary Professionalism in Anthony Trollope’s John Caldigate
Pages 94-118
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Telegraphing Literature in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four
Pages 119-146
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898
- Book Subtitle
- Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture
- Authors
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- L. Rotunno
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-32380-4
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137323804
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-32379-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-45880-6
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6494
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 208
- Topics
