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Susan Harrow - Letterworlds in Late Nineteenth-Century France, Inbunden

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Letterworlds in Late Nineteenth-Century France

The Epistolary Culture of Mallarmé, Morisot, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Zola

Av Susan Harrow

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Beskrivning
Today's world of e-mails, text messages, and social media posts reminds us that letter-writing is an age-old practice that has continually re-invented itself culturally and contextually, connecting individuals and creating communities that may be local or global, personal or public, purposeful or playful, actual or virtual. Yet we have barely begun to explore why letter-writing matters: how it teaches us important lessons, across historical, cultural, and geographical boundaries, about being human. Letterworlds turns to the past - to the late nineteenth century - in order to explore questions of crucial relevance to our present: questions of subjectivity, solitude, and community, physical and mental wellbeing, ethics, and the everyday. Using a fresh holistic and thematic methodology, Susan Harrow examines how such issues suffuse and animate the letter-writing of a group of writers and artists whose contributions are seminal in the development of Western aesthetic modernity: Mallarmé, Morisot, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Zola.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-10-30
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 583 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 290
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009619004
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Susan Harrow is Ashley Watkins Professor of French at the University of Bristol. She is the author of books on modern French literature and focuses particularly on modernism, poetry, and visual culture. A former President of the Society for French Studies, she was made Officier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French culture in 2011. Her recent study Colourworks (2020) was joint winner of the R. Gapper Book Prize in 2021.

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'Providing a fresh and original discussion of letters by luminaries in late 19th century France, Susan Harrow's Letterworlds  is a very good read indeed. Its focus on the mundane as well as the extraordinary, offers fresh insights and contributes in a major way to epistolary theory. A must read for anybody interested in the history and art of letter writing.' Liz Stanley, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

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