Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Her Friends
Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Publisher:
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Horace Walpole's Letters
Author: George E. Haggerty
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611480116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies physical and mental pain; his artistic appreciation and his critical responses. It is impossible to read these letters and not come away with a vivid impression of a complex personality from another age. Haggerty examines the ways in which Walpole presents himself as an eighteenth-century gentleman, and considers his personal relationships, his needs and aspirations, his emotionalism and his rationality - in short, his construction of himself - in order to see what it tells us about the age in general and more specifically, about masculinity in an era of social flux. This study of Walpole and his epistolary relations offers a unique window into both the history of masculinity in the eighteenth century and the codification of friendship as the preeminent value in western culture. Recent studies have tried to rewrite Walpole in a twenty-first century mold while this work looks at the writer and the ways in which he constructs himself and his relations, not in hopes of uncovering a lurid secret, but rather in pursuit of the figure that he created and that has fascinated generations of readers and writers since the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611480116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies physical and mental pain; his artistic appreciation and his critical responses. It is impossible to read these letters and not come away with a vivid impression of a complex personality from another age. Haggerty examines the ways in which Walpole presents himself as an eighteenth-century gentleman, and considers his personal relationships, his needs and aspirations, his emotionalism and his rationality - in short, his construction of himself - in order to see what it tells us about the age in general and more specifically, about masculinity in an era of social flux. This study of Walpole and his epistolary relations offers a unique window into both the history of masculinity in the eighteenth century and the codification of friendship as the preeminent value in western culture. Recent studies have tried to rewrite Walpole in a twenty-first century mold while this work looks at the writer and the ways in which he constructs himself and his relations, not in hopes of uncovering a lurid secret, but rather in pursuit of the figure that he created and that has fascinated generations of readers and writers since the eighteenth century.
Selected Letters
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674250703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A collection of letters written by British poet Emily Dickinson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674250703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A collection of letters written by British poet Emily Dickinson.
The letters of Pliny the Younger
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Friends' Intelligencer
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Friends' Weekly Intelligencer
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Loveday's Letters, domestick and foreign ... The sixth impression. [The editor's preface signed: Antho. Loveday.]
Author: Robert LOVEDAY (Translator.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Collections and Notes
Author: William-Carew Hazlitt
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Letters
Author: Emily Dickinson
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Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Journal of the American Temperance Union
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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