Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture by Clare Bryant

A wide-ranging study of letter-writing in the eighteenth century, this book explores epistolatory forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Organised around a series of characters, each chapter explores with depth and breadth the patterns of letter-writing and letter-reading in the period. Familiar ideas about epistolatory fiction and personal correspondence, and public and private, are re-examined in the light of alternative paradigms, showing how the letter is a genre at the centre of eighteenth-century life.

'Brant makes illuminating connections between the practice of letter-writing and the development of print journalism . . . Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture is a dense book full of brilliant insights.  It distills an immense amount of reading and fully vindicates its assertion of the cultural significance of letters.' Times Literary Supplement

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