Letters and the Body, 17001830 by Sarah Goldsmith
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women and mens letters in Britain, North America and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite.Sarah Goldsmith is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She researches the histories of masculinity, bodies and travel. Her first monograph was Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour (2020). She is an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker and consulted on the V&A’s 2022 Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear exhibition.
Sheryllynne Haggerty is Honorary Research Fellow at WISE, University of Hull. She has published extensively on the economy and networks of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, including ‘Merely for Money’? Business Culture in the British Atlantic 1750–1815 (2012) and Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 (2023).
Karen Harvey is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on the history of gender, masculinity, sexuality, the home and material culture, including The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2012) and The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England (2020).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367461515 |
| ISBN 10 | 036746151X |
| Title | Letters and the Body, 17001830 |
| Author | Sarah Goldsmith |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Eighteenth-Century Cultures And Societies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2023-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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