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Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898Laura Rotunno, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Altoona, USA.
Reminder of title:	readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture /
Author:	Rotunno, Laura,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013.
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.19th century
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137323804
ISBN:	9781137323804 (electronic bk.)

Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture /
Rotunno, Laura,1971-

Postal plots in British fiction, 1840-1898readdressing correspondence in Victorian culture /[electronic resource] :Laura Rotunno, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Altoona, USA. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781137323804 (electronic bk.)

Source: 658983Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

178123
English fiction
--History and criticism.--19th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR830.C636 / R88 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.8093558

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