William Merrill Decker: 1 book
Epistolary Practices
Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography and
history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions
have only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from...
