Epistolary Spaces (Record no. 954)
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| fixed length control field | 02095 a2200241 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 1138711969 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250317100358.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250312042020GB eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781138711969 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Taylor & Francis |
| Terms of availability | GBP 33.99 |
| Form of issue | BB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 01 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | JHB |
| Source | thema |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | JHB |
| Source | bic |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | REL000000 |
| Source | bisac |
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| Subject category code | SOC000000 |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | James How |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Epistolary Spaces |
| Remainder of title | English Letter-writing from the Foundation of the Post Office to Richardson's "Clarissa" |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20201221 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 214 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Expansion of summary note | This title was first published in 2003. The author explores and describes the nature of what he terms "epistolary spaces", phenomena that came into being as a result of the foundation during the 1650s of a Post Office available to the general public. He focuses on the history of letter-writing by English men and women, and in so doing he shows how the imaginations of letter writers were affected by the increasingly cheaper, faster and more efficient postal services that were developed throughout the time period covered. The book makes a detailed study of five "real" correspondences, reading the letters in terms of their social and political interest and addressing such concerns as class, gender, collections of model letters and the importance of London to English epistolary spaces. How portrays epistolary spaces variously as arenas in which to explore the new urban culture of London, in the love letters of Dorothy Osborne (1652-4); courtly enclaves, in the diplomatic letters of the dramatist Sir George Etherege (1685-9); and aristocratic redoubts, in the correspondence between the Countesses of Hertford and Pomfret (1739-41). Finally, How examines the letters that constitute Richardson's novel "Clarissa", showing how the artistic achievement of Richardson's greatest novel was aided by almost a century of just such imaginations of epistolary spaces as are to be found in the letters of Clarissa Harlowe, Anna Howe and Robert Lovelace. |
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