Epistolary selves : letters and letter-writers, 1600-1945 / edited by Rebecca Earle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Earle, Rebecca.

Series:

Warwick studies in the European humanities

Warwick studies in the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letters--History and criticism.

Letters.

Letter writing--History and criticism.

Letter writing.

Physical Description:

x, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1999]

Contents:

1 Introduction: letters, writers and the historian / Rebecca Earle 1

Part I The letter collection

2 'Paper visits': the post-Restoration letter as seen through the Verney family archive / Susan Whyman 15

3 The immigrant letter between positivism and populism: American historians' uses of personal correspondence / David Gerber 37

Part II Letters, the family and public life

4 Formative ventures: eighteenth-century commercial letters and the articulation of experience / Toby L. Ditz 59

5 The sentimental ambassador: the letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-1781 / Kate Teltscher 79

6 Letters, social networks and the embedded economy in Sweden: some remarks on the Swedish bourgeoisie, 1800-1850 / Ylva Hasselberg 95

Part III Women and the letter form

7 A woman writing a letter / Carolyn Steedman 111

8 The power to die: Emily Dickinson's letters of consolation / Daria Donnelly 134

9 'You let a weeping woman call you home?' Private correspondences during the First World War in Austria and Germany / Christa Hammerle 152

10 'Letters are everything these days': mothers and letters in the Second World War / Jenny Hartley 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-224) and index.

ISBN:

1840142103

OCLC:

40799185