Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional. Publication Year: 2013 Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan UK Format: H Weight (Gram): 3796