It’s been 124 years since Bram Stoker’s Dracula hit the market. And what an impact it made. The horror novel introduced the world to the eponymous vampire, changing literature—and culture—forever.

Do you love feeling as though you are part of the fabric of the world? Do you like the realism that comes from reading a novel that's framed as a diary, or a series of letters? Well, if that's the ...

A multi-generational novel that centers around the letters of love lost, Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole tells the story of two women: Elspeth Dunn and her daughter Margaret. During World War I ...

The epistolary novel—that is, a story told through letters—dates back all the way to the 1400s in the earliest versions of the form, counting Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and ...

ABSTRACT Letter-writing manuals were a highly popular print genre in early modern England. Their study yields much valuable information about their cultural milieu. In particular, they illuminate ...

ABSTRACT This article argues that Frances Burney’s Evelina uses the resources of epistolary form to intervene in eighteenth-century debates concerning the “legal fiction” of paternity. In doing so, ...

Letter-writing in the 18th century. I was less quick to understand that letters were not just a source for learning about religion and slavery; rather, letter-writing itself is a practice with a ...

When was the last time you wrote a letter – or received one? Sadly, most of what arrives through the letterbox is a miserable mixture of bills and takeaway flyers, but there was a time when the snap ...

The way Michael Kun describes it, he attended Johns Hopkins back in the technological Pleistocene. No smartphones. No personal computers. No Facebook. No apps. Not even a landline in his dormitory ...

There have been many famous letters and letter-writers in history. One thinks immediately of Cicero, who made it an art form. Then, of course, we have St. Paul, who filled his letters to early ...