Sharon M. Harris and Theresa Strouth Gaul
Ashgate
Hardback
300

Rejecting the common categorization of letters as primarily private documents the contributors demonstrate the genre's persistent and often public engagements with current events and cultural movements during the revolutionary early republican and antebellum periods. Transatlantic studies the literary marketplace reform movements and the politics and practices of editing letters are treated as this lively collection that offers scholars a template of new approaches for exploring this understudied yet critically important genre.