Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860

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Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860 is written by Theresa Strouth Gaul and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754666220 (ISBN 10) and 9780754666226 (ISBN 13).

Rejecting the common categorization of letters as primarily private documents, this collection demonstrates the genre's persistent public engagements with changing cultural dynamics of the revolutionary, early republican, and antebellum eras. Transatlantic studies, authorship, reform movements, and the politics and practices of editing letters are treated in this exemplary collection that offers scholars a template of new approaches for exploring an understudied yet critically important genre.