Posting It : The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0813033799
ISBN-13
9780813033792
Publisher
University Press of Florida
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University Press of Florida
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2009
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
609 grams
Dimensions
24.40 x 16.20 x 2.40 cms
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Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. This book demonstrates how cheap postage led to a postal 'network' that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications.
Although 'snail mail' may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. Golden demonstrates how cheap postage - which was quickly adopted in other countries - led to a postal 'network' that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to blackmail, frauds, unsolicited mass mailings, and junk mail - problems that remain with us today.
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