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...
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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
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Correspondence Culture; 2 Mr Micawber, Letter-Writing Manuals, and Charles Dickens's Literary Professionals; 3 Feminized Correspondence, the Unknown Public, and the Egalitarian Professional of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White; 4 From Postmarks to Literary Professionalism in Anthony Trollope's John Caldigate; 5 Telegraphing Literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four; Conclusion: Undelivered; Notes; Bibliography; Index
