The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century

by Howard Anderson, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Philip B. Daghlian

Book Overview

With the growth of efficient postal service in England and the stimulus of a growing tradition of informal prose among eighteenth-century men of leisure, the intimate letter reached unprecedented literary heights as the exemplary form of the period. Considered here are the striking and diverse qualities both of the art and the personalities of the great letter-writers: Swift, Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Richardson, the Earl of Chesterfield, Johnson, Sterne, Gray, Walpole, Burke, Cowper, Gibbon, and Boswell.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700600035
• ISBN13: 9780700600038
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"