Oxford Book of Letters

"This is a stimulating anthology, with an incisive and witty introduction, touching lightly on the sociology and history of letter writing. The Kermodes explain that before the coming of the railroad and the stamped post, when the addressee had to pay to receive a letter, the sender had to make sure the content of the written message was worth paying for. With E-mail, it seems, we have arrived at the polar opposite situation. The editors have a lot of fun imagining the fantasy consequences of the wordprocessor on the eighteeth-century epistolary novel and proposes the conceit of Richardson's villain Lovelace using a mobile phone."Kermode, Frank is the author of 'Oxford Book of Letters' with ISBN 9780192804907 and ISBN 0192804901.