It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing by Linda C. Mitchell
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This collection of essays shows how letters nimbly traverse the boundaries between the public and the private and examines the many roles of correspondence, from the domestic to the global. Contributors discuss a variety of engrossing subjects: documents of early exploration and diplomacy, including Columbus's texts and Amerigo Vespucci's reports of his experiences in America; the surprisingly large role that letters played in the success of the Jesuit order in the seventeenth century; English letter-writing manuals that provide model letters to be imitated while offering a vivid view into a cross section of lived experience; epistolary travel writings; and letter-writing instruction in nineteenth-century America, among other topics.
Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing by Linda C. Mitchell is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing aloud.
Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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