The Parlor Letter-writer

The Parlor Letter-writer
Author: R. Turner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1862
Genre: Letter writing
ISBN:

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A Literate South

A Literate South
Author: Beth Barton Schweiger
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300245394

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A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South’s oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible—which has its origins in the eighteenth century—has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.

The Parlour Letter-Writer, and Secretary's Assistant

The Parlour Letter-Writer, and Secretary's Assistant
Author: R. Tumer
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-01-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9780483996199

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Excerpt from The Parlour Letter-Writer, and Secretary's Assistant: Consisting of Original Letters on Every Occurrence in Life, Written in a Concise and Familiar Style, and Adapted to Both Sexes; To Which Are Added, Complimentary Cards, Wills, Bonds, &C Places persons, in other respects most deserving and honourable, in situations the most awkward and em harrassing, while familiarity with them gives an ordi nary man the means of appearing to the best advantage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present

Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present
Author: Carol Poster
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781570036514

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Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.