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Rotunno, Laura Elizabeth.

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Readdressed: Correspondence culture and nineteenth-century British fiction (Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Scotland, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Readdressed: Correspondence culture and nineteenth-century British fiction (Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Scotland, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)./
Author:	Rotunno, Laura Elizabeth.
Description:	315 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2501.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3099627
ISBN:	0496472197

Readdressed: Correspondence culture and nineteenth-century British fiction (Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Scotland, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
Rotunno, Laura Elizabeth.

Readdressed: Correspondence culture and nineteenth-century British fiction (Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Scotland, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). - 315 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2501.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Columbia, 2003.

Letters are ubiquitous in Romantic and Victorian novels: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and even the monster use letters to tell their tales; Dickens's Micawber amply matches his long-winded speeches with purple prose-filled letters, and a Sherlock Holmes mystery would be incomplete without letters carrying the crucial handwriting sample or incriminating postmark. For most critics, however, these letters stand as realistic props, deft vehicles for character development, or instruments for intertextual allusions. I argue that a more immediate context explains why the letter so prominently remains in the nineteenth-century novel: British postal history.

ISBN: 0496472197Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Readdressed: Correspondence culture and nineteenth-century British fiction (Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Scotland, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
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520 $a Radical changes in the nineteenth-century British Post Office plunged letters into political, artistic, and social debates. The 1840 Penny Postage Bill alone made correspondence's political valence, artistic worth, and class associations subjects of concern for the majority of the nineteenth-century British population. The widespread publication of letters used in legal trials, the advent of postcards, and the nationalization of the telegraph inspired similar interest and debate. I argue that nineteenth-century novels benefited from the discussions spurred by such correspondence innovations. These novels adopted letters for use in their attempts to shape British readers, writers, and the novel itself. Organizing my chapters around popular genres---the Gothic, the historical novel, the Kunstlerroman, the sensation novel, and the detective novel, specifically using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Sir Walter Scott's Redgauntlet, Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four as case studies---I test this thesis on fiction that reached large populations and stimulated heated debates about aesthetic standards and writerly and readerly responsibilities.
520 $a The narrative that emerges explores why particular genres achieved popularity, how visions of authors expanded as lower classes and women entered the literary marketplace, and if standards of reading changed as the century progressed. Shifting attention away from the letter's declining presence in fiction, this dissertation reveals the political, social, and artistic significance of the letter in nineteenth-century British fiction.
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