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Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vital technology of social intercourse in the nineteenth century and was

Title : Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Author : Elizabeth Hewitt
Language : en
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