Postal Culture : : Writing and Reading Letters in Post-Unification Italy /

Postal Culture : : Writing and Reading Letters in Post-Unification Italy / / Gabriella Romani.

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The nationalization of the postal service in Italy transformed post-unification letter writing as a cultural medium. Both a harbinger of progress and an expanded, more efficient means of circulating information, the national postal service served as a bridge between the private world of personal com...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2013
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Romani, Gabriella,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I
  • 1. Postal Culture after 1861: An Introduction
  • 2. Writing and Reading Letters: The Nationalization of the Italian Postal Service, Epistolary Manuals, and the Print Media
  • PART II
  • 3. Fictionalizing the Letter: Giovanni Verga’s Storia di una capinera
  • 4. Coeur-responding with Her Readers: The Sentimental Politics of Matilde Serao’s Epistolary Fiction
  • 5. Conclusion
  • APPENDIX: Letters Transcribed from Newspapers
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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