Postal plots in British fiction, 184...
Rotunno, Laura, (1971-)

 

  • Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898[electronic resource] :readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823/.8093558
    書名/作者: Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898 : readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture // Laura Rotunno, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Altoona, USA.
    作者: Rotunno, Laura,
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2013.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Communication in literature.
    標題: Postal service in literature.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    ISBN: 9781137323804 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137323809 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. By examining a variety of works from authors including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, "Postal Plots" addresses why. It explores how Victorian postal reforms encouraged the lower and middle classes to read and write, allowed them some social and political agency, and led many to literature. The writers born of postal reforms increased stratification between Victorian novelists, already struggling to define themselves as literary professionals. The reform-inspired readers threatened the novelists' development by flouting distinctions between high and low literature. Letters in Victorian novels thus become markers of the novelists' concerns about the hierarchies and mediocrities that threatened Victorian fiction's artistic progress and social contribution. "Postal Plots" explores Victorian literary professionals' conflict between their support for liberal ideals in the literary marketplace and their fear that they would be unable to bring those changes to pass.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137323804
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