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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.
Contents
Emotion and the Letter, and Introduction, Katie Barclay and Diana G. Barnes
1. Rumination, Resentment and Repetition: Latin Epistolarity and the Performance of Difficult Emotion, Ruth Morello
2. Letters as Emotional Evidence in Early Modern England: Francis Bacon's Printed Apologie and his Manuscript Letterbook, Alan Stewart
3. Epistolary Technologies of Separation and Archives of Emotion, James Daybell
4. Moving Letters between Living and Dead in Joseon Korea, Susan Broomhall
5. This is Not a Letter: A Sympathetic Story of Epistolary Fiction, 1520-1992, Diana G. Barnes
6. Beyond Despair: British Suicide Letters in the Long Eighteenth Century, Eric Parisot and Ella Sbaraini
7. Children's Letters and Emotional Formations in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Katie Barclay
8. Letters to Heaven: Writing Religious Emotions in Twentieth-Century Europe, Vesna Drapac
9. Hate Mail in the Late-Twentieth Century USA, Prudence Flowers
10. Epistolary Cinema: Letter Writing in the Films of Pedro Costa, Thomas Moran
