Letters and the body, 1700-1830: writing and embodiment
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Beteilige Person: Feldberg, Rachel (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: Epistolary bodies: letters and embodiment in the eighteenth century (Veranstaltung) Leicester (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Goldsmith, Sarah (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in eighteenth-cntury cultures and societies
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Abstract:This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women and men s letters in Britain, North America and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite
Beschreibung:Introduction Part 1: Imagined Bodies and Imagining Touch 1. Absent Bodies? Gouty Brethren and Sensitive Hearts in William Constable s Letters from the Grand Tour 1769-1771 2. Imagining Youth: Epistolary Representations of the Eighteenth-Century Adolescent and Youthful Body 3. Touch Me if You Can: Paper Bodies in Letter to and from the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean Part 2: Material Bodies/Material Letters 4. Sympathy in Practice: Eighteenth-Century Letters and the Material Body 5. "Urge, urge, urge, dogs gnawing": Pain, Play and the Material Text in Jonathan Swift s Journal to Stella 6. Blackness, Whiteness and Bodily Degeneration in British Women s Letters from India 7. P. S. Ten Thousand Kisses: Postscript, Appendices and Desire in The Memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley, Late of Drury Lane Theatre Part 3: Bodies Deployed 8. I "never had the happeness of Receivin one Letter from You": Unlettered Letters from Jamaica, 1756 9. Constructing the Body in English Pauper Letters, 1780-1834 10. Labouring Bodies: Work Animals and Hack Writers in Oliver Goldsmith s Letters 11. Sons of Liberty: Epistolary Bodies and the Early American Revolution
Umfang:xiv, 272 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780367461515