Rebecca Earle
Ashgate
Hardback
242
1999
This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material. The contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight viewing letters as texts which can reveal information not only about their writers and readers but about the wider historical context in which they were written.
Ashgate
Hardback
242
1999
This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material. The contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight viewing letters as texts which can reveal information not only about their writers and readers but about the wider historical context in which they were written.