Letters and the Body, 1700-1830

Introduction Part 1: Imagined Bodies and Imagining Touch 1. Absent Bodies? Gouty Brethren and Sensitive Hearts in William Constable's Letters from the Grand Tour 1769-1771 2. Imagining Youth: Epistolary Representations of the Eighteenth-Century Adolescent and Youthful Body 3. Touch Me if You Can: Paper Bodies in Letter to and from the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean Part 2: Material Bodies/Material Letters 4. Sympathy in Practice: Eighteenth-Century Letters and the Material Body 5. "Urge, urge, urge, dogs gnawing": Pain, Play and the Material Text in Jonathan Swift's Journal to Stella 6. Blackness, Whiteness and Bodily Degeneration in British Women's Letters from India 7. P. S. Ten Thousand Kisses: Postscript, Appendices and Desire in The Memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley, Late of Drury Lane Theatre Part 3: Bodies Deployed 8. I "never had the happeness of Receivin one Letter from You": Unlettered Letters from Jamaica, 1756 9. Constructing the Body in English Pauper Letters, 1780-1834 10. Labouring Bodies: Work Animals and Hack Writers in Oliver Goldsmith's Letters 11. Sons of Liberty: Epistolary Bodies and the Early American Revolution

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• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• História social e cultural
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• História inglesa e irlandesa
• História das Américas

epistolary studies;material culture analysis;eighteenth-century correspondence;gender and embodiment;social history research;transatlantic communication;historical letter analysis methods