Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present: Historical and Bibliographic Studies

An in-depth history of epistolary instruction from Isocrates to email

Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Carol Poster and Linda C. Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570036519
• ISBN13: 9781570036514
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"