@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt5hjww5.8,
 ISBN = {9781442647084},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjww5.8},
 abstract = {The nationalization of the postal service marked a historical moment of transformation for the post-unification development of letter writing. Epistolary fiction became part of this cultural, institutional, and technological process as well as playing a role in the formation of modern national identities. The postal service came to be perceived by contemporaries as an indicator of progress and a provider of a wider and more efficient circulation of information, and readers and writers of letters relied on a shared set of conventions and perceptions that transformed the letter into a bridge between the private world of personal communication and the},
 bookauthor = {GABRIELLA ROMANI},
 booktitle = {Postal Culture: Reading and Writing Letters in Post-Unification Italy},
 pages = {156--160},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Conclusion},
 year = {2013}
}