Research Catalog

Title

Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898 : readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture / Laura Rotunno, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Altoona, USA.

Author

Rotunno, Laura, 1971-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Description

ix, 208 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Subject

• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Communication in literature
• Postal service in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Correspondence culture -- Mr. Micawber, letter-writing manuals, and Charles Dickens's literary professionals -- Feminized correspondence, the unknown public, and the egalitarian professional of Wilkie Collins's The woman in white -- From postmarks to literary professionalism in Anthony Trollope's John Caldigate -- Telegraphing literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's The sign of four -- Conclusion: Undelivered.

Call Number

JFD 13-5286

ISBN

• 9781137323798
• 1137323795

LCCN

2013021609

OCLC

837143366

Author

Rotunno, Laura, 1971-

Title

Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898 : readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture / Laura Rotunno, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Altoona, USA.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 13-5286