Book Info enlarge picture Empire of Letters   Author: Eve Tavor Bannet ISBN: 0521856183 Format: Publish Date:                  Book Review Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth century, English, Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which helped to connect and unify different regions of the British Atlantic world. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people knew then about letters that we have forgotten, and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century letters, novels, periodicals, and other genres that used the letter form. This lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read eighteenth-century letters and think about the book in the Atlantic world.