Postal plots in british fiction, 1840-1898: readdressing correspondence in victorian culture
Auteur :
Rotunno, L.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349458806
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2013
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.