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Women's epistolary utterance : a study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611
Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular collections may increase our understanding of early modern letters as a particular type of handwritten communicative activity. The book also adds to our understanding of these women as individual users of English in their historical moment, especially in terms of literacy and their engagement with cultural scripts. Throughout the book, analysis is based on the manuscript letters themselves and in this way several chapters address the importance of viewing original sources to understand the letters' full pragmatic significance. Within these broader frameworks, individual chapters address the women's use of scribes, prose structure and punctuation, performative speech act verbs, and (im)politeness, sincerity and mock (im)politeness.
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Thomas Hardy and Victorian communication : letters, telegrams and postal systems
This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy's works and Victorian media and technologies of communication - especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy's novels, short stories, and poems, it ties together a wide range of subjects: technological and infrastructural developments; material culture; individual subjectivity and the construction of identity; the relationship between private experience and social conventions; and the new narrative possibilities suggested by modern modes of communication.
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Mail and Female
In the
Heroides, the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks fifteen abandoned heroines from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman writes a letter to the hero who left her behind. But in giving voice to these heroines, is Ovid writing like a woman, or writing \"Woman\" like a man? Using feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to examine the \"female voice\" in the
Heroides , Sara H. Lindheim closely reads these fictive letters in which the women seemingly tell their own stories. She points out that in Ovid’s verse epistles all the women represent themselves in a strikingly similar and disjointed fashion. Lindheim turns to Lacanian theory of desire to explain these curious and hauntingly repetitive representations of the heroines in the \"female voice.\" Lindheim’s approach illuminates what these poems reveal about both masculine and feminine constructions of the feminine
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Signed, sealed, delivered : celebrating the joys of letter writing
\"Witty, moving, informative, and inspiring, Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Nina Sankovitch's discovery of trunk filled with a trove of hundred-year old letters in an old house she has just bought with her husband. They are from a Princeton freshman to his mother. Sankovitch cannot help think of her own son, who is about to go off to Harvard, and of the letters she's kept and cherished from a beloved sister and from her husband. From there she sets off on a quest to discover the secrets of letter writers and why we find them so fascinating--from the ancient Egyptians to the medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, from letters between Benjamin Franklin and his daughter to the notes that President Lincoln receives when his son dies. Sankovitch celebrates letters from Edith Wharton to Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter describing life in Hollywood, James Joyce to his Nora, V.S. Naipaul to his father, young Sam Stewart to Gertrude Stein, Georgia O'Keefe to Alfred Stieglitz, and Rachel Carson to her woman lover. She looks at epistolary novels and her husband's love letters as well as her uncle's letters from his Holocaust exile, and dozens more. Plus her son's brief reports from college on the weather and his allowance. In a beautifully written book, itself a perfect gift, Nina Sankovitch reminds us that the letters we write are as important as the ones we wait for\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ancient epistolary fictions : the letter in Greek literature
A comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature, first published in 2001. The book challenges the notion that Ovid 'invented' the fictional letter form in the Heroides and considers a wealth of Greek antecedents for the later European epistolary novel tradition.
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Dear Juliet : letters from the lovestruck and lovelorn to Shakespeare's Juliet in Verona
\"Every year, over 6,000 letters addressed to Juliet arrive in Verona, Italy, the famous hometown of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. These letters are handwritten from people all over the world, seeking guidance and advice from Juliet herself. These heartfelt letters are gathered by the Juliet Club, an organization of women volunteers, dubbed 'Juliet's secretaries,' who respond to each letter. DEAR JULIET will feature 75-100 of these handwritten letters that capture the pain, joy, and confusion of love. Enclosed in a delicate and beautiful package, these letters will provide encouragement, support, comfort, and delight to all readers. Each anonymous + And although love may be the universal language, any non-English letters will be translated and placed next to the original letter\"-- Provided by publisher.
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