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Focusing on Correspondence from the Double-Cassia Studio (Shuanggui xuan chidu [phrase omitted] ), a collection of letters by a gentlewoman named Ding Shanyi [phrase omitted] (1799-after 1861), this paper examines how elite women in mid-nineteenth-century China applied epistolary conventions in their social life. Compared to other literary collections of individual women in late imperial China, Ding's letter collection is exceptional in recording the life of its author through the epistolary genre and in revealing the sociopolitical dynamics that underlay elite women's epistolary gentility. Ding's letters are indicative of the noticeable concerns shared by gentlewomen in mid-nineteenth-century China and provide specific contexts for understanding some of the epistolary techniques used by literary women to facilitate social networking. This paper uncovers Ding's life and explores three major themes in her epistolary collection: her responses to crises, concerns about health, and cultivation of friendship. Ding's letters show how elite women evinced sophistication and erudition in their epistolary composition, which was an important way for them to express themselves and demonstrate their mastery of language and rhetorical tradition., If it is convenient [for you to send] fish and wild geese, please be unstinting in sharing delightful messages. [phrase omitted] INTRODUCTION: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, TEXTBOOK, AND GENTILITY The longing for letters [...]

This paper examines the seven-month period between January and July 1807 that Heinrich yon Kleist spent in French confinement on charges of espionage, and the Trauerspiel Pemhesilea he wrote during [...]

INTRODUCTION One of the earliest attested texts in Neo-Mandaic, and one of the few witnesses to the now-extinct Iraqi dialect of Neo-Mandaic, was a letter first published among the texts [...]

A study was conducted to investigate the Israeli establishment's attempts to justify the outcomes of deployment of force on behalf of the state. The letters sent for Remembrance Day to the bereaved families of fallen soldiers are analyzed. It is believed that addressing the families as a distinct group in the country changed the inclusive reference to the nation or the collective 'we.'

This article discusses the social writing practices of international migrant workers. The author examines the letters, finding that letter writing was a very large part of communication, as well as popular culture, among migrant farmers, and also finds women play a very significant role in migrant farming and in the community.

In this article, I explore the complicated relationship between individual experience and national events, the way this relationship is narrated, and how individual memory becomes part of a collective memory. By looking at memoirs written by the descendants of Thomas Rantalainen, and focusing on personal correspondence, I show how the contents of letters written 60 years ago relate to events in Finland's history that are still being discussed today. In the narrative practices of the correspondence, the individuals themselves - through the use of a narrative We - merge their personal experiences with those of the community. Two themes in the letters - war and family life - illustrate how the processes of replication and analogical thinking work in bringing the past into the present. Keywords: Finland, history and analogical thinking, personal correspondence, domestic life