Horace Walpole's Letters : Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century.

Horace Walpole's Letters : Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century.

In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies ph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haggerty, George E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011.
Subjects:
Walpole, Horace, > 1717-1797 > Correspondence.
Walpole, Horace, > 1717-1797
1700-1799
Authors, English > 18th century > Correspondence.
English letters > History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Friendship in literature.
Masculinity > England > History > 18th century.
Authors, English
English letters
Friendship in literature
Masculinity
Masculinity in literature
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Personal correspondence
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Table of Contents:
  • Horace Walpole's Letters; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Horace Walpole's Epistolary Relations; PART ONE : Epistolarity; 1 Horace Walpole's Epistolary Friendships; 2 Horace Walpole on the Grand Tour; 3 Strawberry Hill: Architecture, Friendship, and the Erotics of Collecting; PART TWO : Correspondents; 4 Illness and Intimacy in the Letters between Horace Walpole and William Cole; 5 Art, Politics, and Friendship in the Letters between Horace Walpole and Horace Mann; 6 Walpole and Women: The Countess of Upper Ossory and Mary Berry; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.

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