英语词汇dead letter office的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dead letter office. A place where undeliverable letters (no re- turn address, etc.) go. The U.S. Postal Service has long had no office of that name, changing it in 1994 to the Mail Recovery Center. But dead letter office will live on in poem and story, es- pecially in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1856), which suggests that Bartleby was a clerk in the dead letter of- fice, where its strange atmosphere may have affected his strange attitude toward life. Some critics hold that the neglect of Melville’s novels led him to regard his work as “dead letters.”

词汇	dead letter office
词源	dead letter office. A place where undeliverable letters (no re- turn address, etc.) go. The U.S. Postal Service has long had no office of that name, changing it in 1994 to the Mail Recovery Center. But dead letter office will live on in poem and story, es- pecially in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1856), which suggests that Bartleby was a clerk in the dead letter of- fice, where its strange atmosphere may have affected his strange attitude toward life. Some critics hold that the neglect of Melville’s novels led him to regard his work as “dead letters.”
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