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Queering romantic engagement in the postal age : a rhetorical education / Pamela VanHaitsma.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author:	VanHaitsma, Pamela (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:	Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:	American letters > 19th century > History and criticism. Letter writing > United States > History > 19th century. Gay people > United States > Correspondence > History and criticism. Gay peoples' writings, American American letters. Letter writing. United States. 1800-1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: beyond civic engagement
The language of the heart: genre instruction in heteronormative relations
To address you my husband: Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus's queer epistolary exchange
Somehow or other, queer in the extreme: Albert Dodd's civic training and genre-queer practices
Conclusion: toward queer failure.