By Sharon M. Harris
This quantity illustrates the importance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural advancements. Rejecting the typical categorization of letters as essentially deepest files, this number of essays demonstrates the genre's continual public engagements with altering cultural dynamics of the innovative, early republican, and antebellum eras. Sections of the gathering deal with letters' implication in transatlanticism, authorship, and reform events in addition to the politics and practices of enhancing letters. the wide variety of authors thought of contain Mercy Otis Warren, Charles Brockden Brown, contributors of the Emerson and Peabody households, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Stoddard, Catherine Brown, John Brown, and Harriet Jacobs. the amount is especially correct for researchers in U.S. literature and heritage, in addition to women's writing and periodical experiences. This dynamic assortment bargains students an exemplary template of latest techniques for exploring an understudied but seriously very important literary style.
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The parties involved communicate with each other through linguistic and cultural translation. ” The author addresses the Italian correspondent, who embodies the original audience of the letter, while the editor, who is in charge of the English translation, addresses the extra-textual audience in England. The published work, in its bilingual and epistolary form, is imagined as capable of bringing the two groups together. The body of the letter develops through a series of comparisons that project various images against each other.
Even before arriving in colonial America, the epistolary model provides Mazzei with a place in the British imperial environment without having to lose his adopted cosmopolitan self and without experiencing the marginalization that his position of immigrant would have otherwise generated. In a personal letter to John Page and a propagandistic article in letter form published in the Virginia Gazette, the same idea of self reappears in Mazzei’s works to describe his experience in the North American colonies and to define the identity of the emerging nation.
The pamphlet shows the extent to which the dynamics of epistolary correspondence and its forms affected Mazzei’s vision of subjectivity and group identity, which will later become the foundation of his view of an American national identity. The text of A Letter on the Behaviour of the Populace on a Late Occasion, in the Procedure against a Noble Lord from a Gentleman to his Countryman abroad, despite its wordy title, is very brief, and the English translation faces the original Italian. The pretext for its topic is a debate over a cause célèbre that had kept England arguing for over a decade.
