Letters And The Body 1700 1830
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Letters And The Body 1700 1830
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Author : Sarah; Haggerty Goldsmith (Sheryllynne; Harvey, Karen)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Letters And The Body 1700 1830 written by Sarah; Haggerty Goldsmith (Sheryllynne; Harvey, Karen) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with HISTORY categories.
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men's letterswrittenfrom and toBritain, North America, Europe, Indiaand the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw on different methodological approaches that include close readings of single letters, social historical analyses of large corpora and a material culture approach to the object of the letter. This research includes personal letters exchanged among family and friends, formal correspondence and letters that were incorporated into published forewords and appendices, journals and memoirs.PartI explores the letter as a substitute for the absent body, the imagined physical encounters and performances envisaged by letter writers and the means through which these imagined sensations were conveyed.Part IIexamines the letter as a material object that served as a conduit for descriptions of the material body and as an instrument for embodied encounters.Part IIIfocuses on how correspondents purposefully used their bodies in letters as a means to create intimacy, to generate social networks and build a body politic'. This interdisciplinary volume centred around letters will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields including eighteenth-century studies, cultural history and literature.
Letters And The Body 1700 1830
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Author : Sarah Goldsmith
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Letters And The Body 1700 1830 written by Sarah Goldsmith and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with History categories.
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw on different methodological approaches that include close readings of single letters, social historical analyses of large corpora and a material culture approach to the object of the letter. This research includes personal letters exchanged among family and friends, formal correspondence and letters that were incorporated into published forewords and appendices, journals and memoirs. Part I explores the letter as a substitute for the absent body, the imagined physical encounters and performances envisaged by letter writers and the means through which these imagined sensations were conveyed. Part II examines the letter as a material object that served as a conduit for descriptions of the material body and as an instrument for embodied encounters. Part III focuses on how correspondents purposefully used their bodies in letters as a means to create intimacy, to generate social networks and build a ‘body politic’. This interdisciplinary volume centred around letters will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields including eighteenth-century studies, cultural history and literature.
Ordinary People Extraordinary Times
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Author : Sheryllynne Haggerty
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Ordinary People Extraordinary Times written by Sheryllynne Haggerty and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with History categories.
In October of 1756 Sarah Folkes wrote home to her children in London from Jamaica. Posted on the ship Europa, bound for London, her letter was one of around 350 that were never delivered due to an act of war; they remain together today in the National Archives in London. In Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times Sheryllynne Haggerty closely reads and analyses this collection of correspondence, exploring the everyday lives of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and the enslaved in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica – Britain’s wealthiest colony of the time – at the start of the Seven Years’ War. This unique cache of letters brings to life both thoughts and behaviours that even today appear quite modern: concerns over money, surviving in a war-torn world, family squabbles, poor physical and mental health, and a desire to purchase fashionable consumer goods. The letters also offer a glimpse into the impact of British colonialism on the island; Jamaica was a violent, cruel, and deadly materialistic place dominated by slavery from which all free people benefited, and it is clear that the start of the Seven Years’ War heightened the precariousness of enslaved peoples’ lives. Jamaica may have been Britain’s Caribbean jewel, but its society was heterogeneous and fractured along racial and socioeconomic lines. A rare study of microhistory, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of daily life in Jamaica against the vast backdrop of transatlantic slavery, war, and the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Gender Space And Illicit Economies In Eighteenth Century Europe
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Author : Anne Montenach
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-02-23
Gender Space And Illicit Economies In Eighteenth Century Europe written by Anne Montenach and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-23 with History categories.
This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe. Using original source material from several countries, this volume concentrates on a border and transnational area—approximately the Lyon-Geneva-Turin triangle—located at the heart of European trade. It focuses on three products—salt, cotton and silk—all of which fuelled the black market between the last decades of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. This volume offers an original contribution to wider studies of smuggling, illicit markets and women’s economic roles by taking into account the economic life of remote mountain communities and industrious cities. Showing that irregular practices were a structural characteristic of early modern economies, it provides insight into the opportunities offered to women in a highly flexible economy where licit and illicit activities were intermingled in a very complex way. This research monograph is aimed at a historical audience and constitutes a useful resource for students and scholars interested in gender history, social and economic history, urban history and French studies.
Enlightened Nightscapes
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Author : Pamela F. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-04-03
Enlightened Nightscapes written by Pamela F. Phillips and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-03 with History categories.
This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through different mediums and in different geographical contexts. Situated on the eve of the introduction of artificial lighting, the long eighteenth century has much to say about night’s darkness and brilliance. The eighteenth century has been bound up epistemologically with images of light, reason, and order. Night and day, light and darkness, reason and mystery, however, are not necessarily at odds in the eighteenth century. In their analysis of narratives, poetry, urban spaces, music, the visual arts, and geological phenomena, the essays provide various frameworks to examine the representation, treatment, and meaning of the enlightened night. The transnational and multidisciplinary nature of the volume presents a survey of the research currently being done in the field of the long eighteenth-century night. This collection contributes to an ongoing exercise that questions the accepted definitions of the Enlightenment, and by bringing Eighteenth-Century Studies into dialogue with Night Studies, it enriches the critical conversation between these lines of research.
The Brewing Industry In England 1700 1830
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Author : Peter Mathias
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1959
The Brewing Industry In England 1700 1830 written by Peter Mathias and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Brewing industry and trade categories.
Writing Gender In Women S Letter Collections Of The Italian Renaissance
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Author : Meredith K. Ray
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Writing Gender In Women S Letter Collections Of The Italian Renaissance written by Meredith K. Ray and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance examines the letter collections of women writers, arguing that these works were a studied performance of pervasive ideas about gender as well as genre, a form of self-fashioning that variously reflected, manipulated, and subverted cultural and literary conventions regarding femininity and masculinity. Meredith K. Ray presents letter collections from authors of diverse backgrounds, including a noblewoman, a courtesan, an actress, a nun, and a male writer who composed letters under female pseudonyms. Ray's study includes extensive new archival research and highlights a widespread interest in women's letter collections during the Italian Renaissance that suggests a deep curiosity about the female experience and a surprising openness to women's participation in this kind of literary production.
The Silent Rhetoric Of The Body
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Author : Matthew Craske
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Silent Rhetoric Of The Body written by Matthew Craske and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Matthew Craske looks closely at tomb sculptures in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission.
Media And The Mind
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Author : Matthew Daniel Eddy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Media And The Mind written by Matthew Daniel Eddy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. Information is often characterized as facts that float effortlessly across time and space. But before the nineteenth century, information was seen as a process that included a set of skills enacted through media on a daily basis. How, why, and where were these mediated facts and skills learned? Concentrating on manuscripts created by students in Scotland between 1700 and 1830, Matthew Daniel Eddy argues that notebooks functioned as workshops where notekeepers learned to judge the accuracy, utility, and morality of the data they encountered. He shows that, in an age preoccupied with "enlightened" values, the skills and materials required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to reason—they were part of reason itself. Covering a rich selection of material and visual media ranging from hand-stitched bindings to watercolor paintings, the book problematizes John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa. Although one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful for those who used it. Eddy makes a case for using the material culture of early modern manuscripts to expand the meaning of the metaphor in a way that offers a clearer understanding of the direct relationship that existed between thinking and notekeeping. Starting in the home, moving to schools, and then ending with universities, the book explores this argument by reconstructing the relationship between media and the mind from the bottom up.
Letters On Female Character
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Author : Virginia Cary
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 1830
Letters On Female Character written by Virginia Cary and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830 with History categories.