The Dead Letter

The Dead LetterThe Dead Letter (1867) is a detective novel by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor. Published under the pseudonym Seeley Regester, The Dead Letter is the first full length work of crime fiction in American literature. I paused suddenly in my work. Over a years experience in the Dead Letter office had given a mechanical rapidity to my movements in opening, noting and classifying the contents of the bundles before me [] Young ladies whose love letters have

which include the burial chamber of Karabasken

The 505s have been around for generations

These photographs were documented in the first edition of Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture

from students' appropriations of Internet images to using blogs in the classroom to the efforts by universities to claim legal ownership of professors' teaching and research materials

becoming monstrous

Originally published in 1856

and haibun

in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted—on the one hand by the "memory in advance" of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past

The Foundling as a critique of Fichtean ego philosophy

comparing and contrasting it with the antecedents in the pesharim of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the allegorical commentaries of Philo of Alexandria

Interest in crossbreeding of dairy cattle has become a topic of great interest in the last ten years and has developed in response to concerns dairy producers have about fertility

which we call the spatial contract