Gender and politics in the age of letter-writing, 1750-2000 / edited by Caroline Bland and Máire Cross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bland, Caroline, 1968-

Cross, Máire.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letters--History and criticism.

Letters.

Letter writing--History.

Letter writing.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 280 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

Part I 1750-1850: Epistolary Connections in Enlightenment and Revolution

1 Gender Politics: Breathing New Life into Old Letters / Maire Cross, Caroline Bland 3

2 'The Tribunal of the Public': Eighteenth-Century Letters and the Politics of Vindication / Clare Brant 15

3 Parenthood and Gender Roles as Seen in Diderot's Correspondance / Ursula Yvonne Roberts 29

4 Deconstructing Gender: Henriette's Correspondence with Rousseau / Anne-Francoise Gilbert 43

5 Third Person Singular: the Liberation of the Marquise de Sade, 1789-1790 / David McCallam 55

6 'Remember the Ladies': Politics in the Letters of Abigail Adams / Edith B. Gelles 67

7 'Friends of Liberty & Virtue': Women Radicals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1789-1848 / Jane Rendall 77

8 The Correspondence of a 'Sister in Humanity' / Maire Cross 93

Part II 1850-2000: Correspondence in Times of Trial

9 Requests, Complaints, Demands. Preliminary Thoughts on the Petitioning Letters of Lower-Class Austrian Women, 1865-1918 / Christa Hammerle 115

10 A History in Letters: the Allemane Family's Letters During and After the Paris Commune, 1871-1880 / Sian Reynolds 135

11 Across the Divide: a Correspondence During the Dreyfus Affair / David H. Walker 147

12 The Gendered Politics of Correspondence: the Curious Case of Celine Renooz, 1840-1928 / James Smith Allen 161

13 Reading Between the Lines. Letters to Eleanor Keeling Edwards, 1890-1900 / Krista Cowman 173

14 More than Just 'a Sporting Couple': the Letters of a Militant Marriage / June Balshaw 185

15 Slinging the Ink About: Ellen Terry and Women's Suffrage Agitation / Katharine Cockin 201

16 'In Great Haste': the Personal and Political in the Letters of F.W. Stella Browne (1880-1955), Feminist Socialist Sex Radical / Lesley A. Hall 213

17 'In Case the Worst Comes to the Worst': Letters home from Berlin, 1942-1945 / Caroline Bland 225

18 Constructing Identities and Remembering Fascism: the Published Letters of Elisabeth Langgasser / Joanne Sayner 241

19 Corresponding in the Sex and Gender Revolution: Desire, Education and Feminist Letters, 1970-2000 / Margaretta Jolly 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754638510

OCLC:

52594545