Authors of their lives [electronic resource] : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / David A. Gerber.
2006
E184.B7 G47 2006eb
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Authors of their lives [electronic resource] : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / David A. Gerber.
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0814731716 (cloth : alk. paper)
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New York : New York University Press, c2006.
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English
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x, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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E184.B7 G47 2006eb
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973.5/092/241
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.