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Emotions and the Letter
A History from Antiquity to the Present
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About this book
From hate mail to suicide notes to begging letters, this book explores the relationship between letter writing and emotion through case studies from antiquity to the 21st century. It shows how the epistolary form has offered a wide range of ways to communicate private feelings, make public statements and offers a rich historical source to explore how people have performed emotions for a range of audiences.
Emotions and the Letter shows how this long-standing historical source can provide insights into a diversity of emotion traditions. Uses of the letter in different periods and its emotional potential reflect important interactions between individuals and society, private and public, aesthetics and authenticity. Applying approaches and methods from the history of emotions, literary studies and affect studies, this collection significantly advances our understanding of why letters remain a critical mode of communication and explores how to analyse letters for historical emotions research.
Emotions and the Letter shows how this long-standing historical source can provide insights into a diversity of emotion traditions. Uses of the letter in different periods and its emotional potential reflect important interactions between individuals and society, private and public, aesthetics and authenticity. Applying approaches and methods from the history of emotions, literary studies and affect studies, this collection significantly advances our understanding of why letters remain a critical mode of communication and explores how to analyse letters for historical emotions research.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- History of Emotions
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of 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
- Copyright Page