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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
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      7. It's interesting that Jane Austen toyed with epistolary novel in juvenilia and perhaps in early draft of Pride & Prejudice.

      2 replies 1 retweet 66 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      8. In effect, even in non-epistolary novels, writers like Austen are taking the contents of letters and giving them dramatic form.

      3 replies 2 retweets 71 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      9. It's Anthony Trollope who best illustrates connection. Trollope's day job was working for the post office. Wrote novels before work day

      5 replies 3 retweets 60 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      10. Trollope was actually the person who introduced the pill box (or mail box) to England (and later much of the world).

      11 replies 5 retweets 55 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      11. Trollope: "It was the ambition of my life to cover the country with rural letter-carriers...."

      3 replies 3 retweets 49 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
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      12. "I was... a beneficent angel to the public, bringing everywhere with me an earlier, cheaper, and much more regular delivery of letters"

      1 reply 2 retweets 56 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
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      13. The two sides of Trollope (post office official & novelist writing about bourgeois love & ambition) were in fact one and the same.

      5 replies 6 retweets 74 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
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      14. Trollope didn't write pure epistolary novels but his books are filled with letters as agents of friendships & courtships formed & broken

      4 replies 2 retweets 48 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
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      15. What happens in 20th century is, as one would expect, the novelist/postal worker becoming plebeian (Faulkner, Richard Wright, Bukowski)

      3 replies 2 retweets 45 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      16. With post-modern fragmentation, mail is no longer socially cohesive but marked with paranoia: secret postal service of Crying of Lot 49

      5 replies 8 retweets 97 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017

      Jeet Heer Retweeted nothings monstered

      17. Anyways, I could go on. Tweets 18-40 would be taken up with this. but will end for nowhttps://twitter.com/nothingsmonstrd/status/855148783155499011 …

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      nothings monstered @nothingsmonstrd
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      PO as democratic space. Congressional franking. Social media of the 19th C.
      1:18 PM - 20 Apr 2017
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        1. Prolapsed Brain‏ @ProlapsedBrain 20 Apr 2017
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          - Now's the time to plug the book, Jeet...

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        1. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 20 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This screams to be a full essay. Pls include Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O."

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        1. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 20 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Quitter.

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        1. Mikel Jollett‏Verified account @Mikel_Jollett 20 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I'm actually a little disappointed here.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Kyle Wrather

          18. Special Coda: Faulkner's letter of resignation when he quite working as post master:https://twitter.com/kylewrather/status/855148533451829248 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          Kyle Wrather @kylewrather
          Replying to @bjhaskin @HeerJeet
          Yes! His resignation letter is glorious pic.twitter.com/vQRgn7216S
          6 replies 18 retweets 95 likes
        3. Carl‏ @skiingforever1 20 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          If nothing else, I learned Faulkner was a post master. I didn't know that.

          0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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        1. blue‏ @blue_prop 20 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          They called Karl Malone the "Mailman" because he delivered...unlike HeerJeet. Disappointing, weak sauce.pic.twitter.com/zgMWkAd8PS

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        1. Steven Kruger‏ @StevenKrugerQ 20 Apr 2017
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          recommending Mary Favret's book "Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics, and the Fiction of Letters"

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