Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing - Softcover

Golden, Catherine J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813035414 ISBN 13: 9780813035413

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. Golden demonstrates how cheap postage--which was quickly adopted in other countries--led to a postal "network" that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to blackmail, frauds, unsolicited mass mailings, and junk mail--problems that remain with us today.

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Catherine J. Golden is professor of English at Skidmore Colleg

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0813035414
• ISBN 13: 9780813035413
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
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