Empire of Letters Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680}}}1820 [Paperback]

This lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read and interpret eighteenth-century letters.Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth century, English, Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which helped to connect and unify different regions of the British Atlantic world. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people knew then about letters that we have forgotten, and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century letters, novels, periodicals, and other genres that used the letter form. This lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read eighteenth-century letters and think about the book in the Atlantic world.Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth century, English, Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which helped to connect and unify different regions of the British Atlantic world. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people knew then about letters that we have forgotten, and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century letters, novels, periodicals, and other genres that used the letter form. This lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read eighteenth-century letters and think about the book in the Atlantic world.Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth century, English, Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which helped to connect and unify different regions of the British Atlantic world, even as they fostered and helped to create very different local and regional cultures and values. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people knew then about letters that we have forgotten, and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century letters, novels, periodicals, and other kinds of writing in manuscript and print which used the letter form.Prologue; Part I. Letter Manuals and Eighteenth-Century Letteracy: Introl£8