商品簡介
Letter writing within that class during that period was more than a form of communication, says Ruberg (cultural history, Utrecht U., The Netherlands), but also a social interaction subject to rules as elaborated as those of table manners or paying calls. She explores how correspondence actually functioned in practice, paying special attention to what norms were attached to the exchange of letters within and between families and how letters could serve as a medium to demonstrate, teach, or learn correct behavior. She broadens the conventional scope of the study of egodocuments--autobiographies, diaries, and letters--by considering the form of the letters as well as their content. She covers epistolary theory, everyday correspondence, children's letters, adolescents' letters, and ceremonial correspondence. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Willemijn Ruberg is Assistant Professor in Cultural History at Utrecht University. Her research and teaching interests include the history of autobiographical writing, gender, emotion, sexuality and the body in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.