Letters and the Body, 1700–1830
Writing and Embodiment
$84.80
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2024
Summary
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women’s and men’s letters written from and to Britain, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite.
In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw on different methodological approaches that include close readings of single letters, social historical analyses of large corpora and a m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032515571 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032515570 |
| Author: | Sarah Goldsmith, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Karen Harvey |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 530g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies |
About The Author
Sarah Goldsmith
Sarah Goldsmith is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She researches the histories of masculinity, bodies and travel. Her first monograph was Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour (2020). She is an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker and consulted on the V&A’s 2022 Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear exhibition.
Sheryllynne Haggerty is Honorary Research Fellow at WISE, University of Hull. She has published extensively on the economy and networks of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, including ‘Merely for Money’? Business Culture in the British Atlantic 1750–1815 (2012) and Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 (2023).
Karen Harvey is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on the history of gender, masculinity, sexuality, the home and material culture, including The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2012) and The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England (2020).
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