Authors of their lives the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century /
| Основен автор: | Gerber, David A., 1944- |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
New York University Press,
c2006.
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Съдържание:
- 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.