Writing to the world: letters and the origins of modern print genres

Introduction; 1 Circulating News: Letters in Manuscript and Print, 1665-1695; 2 Questions and Answers: Epistolary Exchange and the Early Periodical Press; 3 Open Letters: Personal Politics in the Epistolary Novel; 4 A New World: Biographical Writing and Epistolary Evidencs; 5 Leaving "the World": The Decline of the Epistolary Novel from Burney to Austen; Postscript; Bibliographical Essay.