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      Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications

      William Merrill Decker

      In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the postmodern period.

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      The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams

      William Merrill Decker

      This insightful book focuses on the relationship between Henry Adams and his audience, emphasizing Adams’s rhetorical strategies in his effort to shape a dialogue with his readers. William Decker explores…

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      Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler

      William Merrill Decker

      Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression…

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      Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler

      William Merrill Decker

      Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression…

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      Henry Adams and the Need to Know

      Presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams’ preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. The topics covered range from…

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