@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt5hjww5.5,
 ISBN = {9781442647084},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjww5.5},
 abstract = {For those who were born before the Internet era, the sheer speed of circulation of news, not only public but personal, is at times confounding: as a result of technological developments, much has changed in the past few decades in the way we receive and produce information. This reaction is not without precedent: despite the industrial backwardness of nineteenth-century Italy, people must have felt startled by the changes in the modes and timeliness of communication when, as a result of institutional interventions and technological developments (such as the construction of a more extensive railway system and the invention of the},
 bookauthor = {GABRIELLA ROMANI},
 booktitle = {Postal Culture: Reading and Writing Letters in Post-Unification Italy},
 pages = {18--72},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Writing and Reading Letters: The Nationalization of the Italian Postal Service, Epistolary Manuals, and the Print Media},
 year = {2013}
}