Emotions and the Letter : A History from Antiquity to the Present.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barclay, Katie, editor.

Barnes, Diana G., editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

History of emotions (London, England)

History of emotions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--History.

Emotions.

Language and emotions.

Letter writing--History.

Letter writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

This collection explores the relationship between letter writing and emotions through time, using case studies from antiquity to the 21st century.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Emotion and the letter: An introduction

2 Rumination, resentment and repetition: Latin epistolarity and the performance of difficult emotion

3 Letters as emotional evidence in early modern England: Francis Bacon's printed Apologie and his manuscript letterbook

4 Letters, emotions and the experience of separation in the early modern world

5 Moving letters between living and dead in Joseon Korea

6 This is not a letter: A sympathetic story of epistolary fiction, 1520-​1992

7 Beyond despair: British suicide letters in the long eighteenth century

8 Children's letters and emotional formations in long-​eighteenth-​century Britain

9 Letters to heaven: Writing religious emotions in twentieth-​century Europe

10 Hate mail in the late-​twentieth-​century United States

11 Epistolary cinema: Letter-​writing in the films of Pedro Costa

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-350-35550-X

1-350-34517-2

9781350345171

OCLC:

1546961600