TY - BOOK
T1 - Letters and the Body, 1700-1830
T2 - Writing and Embodiment
A2 - Goldsmith, Sarah
A2 - Haggerty, Sheryllynne
A2 - Harvey, Karen
PY - 2023/7/4
Y1 - 2023/7/4
N2 - This interdisciplinary collection explores relationships between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century. It is unique in its focus on a broad range of manuscript and printed letters written by women and men of different ranks in Britain, North America, India and the Caribbean. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines apply different approaches to explore the imagined physical encounters and performances envisaged by letter-writers, the letter as a material object and an instrument for embodied encounters, and how correspondents purposefully used their bodies in letters as a means to create intimacy, to generate social networks and build a ‘body politic’.
AB - This interdisciplinary collection explores relationships between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century. It is unique in its focus on a broad range of manuscript and printed letters written by women and men of different ranks in Britain, North America, India and the Caribbean. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines apply different approaches to explore the imagined physical encounters and performances envisaged by letter-writers, the letter as a material object and an instrument for embodied encounters, and how correspondents purposefully used their bodies in letters as a means to create intimacy, to generate social networks and build a ‘body politic’.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Letters-and-the-Body-17001830-Writing-and-Embodiment/Goldsmith-Haggerty-Harvey/p/book/9780367461515
U2 - 10.4324/9781003027256
DO - 10.4324/9781003027256
M3 - Book
SN - 9780367461515
T3 - Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
BT - Letters and the Body, 1700-1830
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -