Horace Walpole's letters : masculinity and friendship in the eighteenth century / George E. Haggerty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haggerty, George E.

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--18th century--Correspondence.

Authors, English.

English letters--History and criticism.

English letters.

Masculinity in literature.

Friendship in literature.

Masculinity--England--History--18th century.

Masculinity.

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Correspondence.

Walpole, Horace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the course of his life, which spanned the eighteenth century from 1717 to 1797, Horace Walpole wrote thousands of letters to his closest friends and acquaintances. In this study, George E. Haggerty writes about the letters themselves, which span forty-eight volumes of correspondence. In addition to looking at the letters in terms of one of the great literary accomplishments of the century, at least on a par with Boswell's Life of Johnson and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, these letters taken in aggregate offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-ce

Contents:

Introduction: Horace Walpole's epistolary relations

Horace Walpole's epistolary friendships

Horace Walpole on the grand tour

Strawberry Hill: architecture, friendship, and the erotics of collecting

Illness and intimacy in the letters between Horace Walpole and William Cole

Art, politics, and friendship in the letters between Horace Walpole and Horace Mann

Walpole and women: the Countess of Upper Ossory and Mary Berry.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-35627-1

1-283-16352-7

9786613163523

1-61148-011-6

OCLC:

741492729