L Rotunno: 1 book
Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898
Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
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.
