id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt vq27zk54c4x Jacqueline Marie Den Hartog A 'Wild and Ambiguous Medium': Letters and Epistolary Fictions in Early America, 1780-1830 2006 .txt text/plain 354 12 31 Epistolary writing was extremely popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but American works differ from their British literary predecessors. American authors recognized the ambiguities inherent in the epistolary form and used letters to complicate and destabilize the teleological narrative of national destiny that characterized political documents and popular rhetoric. cache/vq27zk54c4x.txt txt/vq27zk54c4x.txt