If the letter is an ideal lens through which to view late 19th century American society as it underwent radical change, then Henry Adams is an ideal correspondent. Joanne Jacobson shows how Adams used letters to broker authority, and to construct alliances with correspondents. She demonstrates the rhetorical complexity of the letter and underscores its role in the struggle over cultural authority which shaped much of the late 19th-century American literature.
If the letter is an ideal lens through which to view late 19th century American society as it underwent radical change, then Henry Adams is an ideal c...
