03173nam 2200673 a 450 991045649220332120200520144314.01-283-16352-797866131635231-61148-011-6(CKB)2550000000039332(EBL)730749(OCoLC)741492729(SSID)ssj0000537631(PQKBManifestationID)12222906(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537631(PQKBWorkID)10554278(PQKB)10702688(MiAaPQ)EBC730749(Au-PeEL)EBL730749(CaPaEBR)ebr10483535(CaONFJC)MIL316352(EXLCZ)99255000000003933220100504d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHorace Walpole's letters[electronic resource] masculinity and friendship in the eighteenth century /George E. HaggertyLewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University Press20111 online resource (189 p.)Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850Description based upon print version of record.1-61148-010-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Horace Walpole's epistolary relations -- Horace Walpole's epistolary friendships -- Horace Walpole on the grand tour -- Strawberry Hill: architecture, friendship, and the erotics of collecting -- Illness and intimacy in the letters between Horace Walpole and William Cole -- Art, politics, and friendship in the letters between Horace Walpole and Horace Mann -- Walpole and women: the Countess of Upper Ossory and Mary Berry.Over the course of his life, which spanned the eighteenth century from 1717 to 1797, Horace Walpole wrote thousands of letters to his closest friends and acquaintances. In this study, George E. Haggerty writes about the letters themselves, which span forty-eight volumes of correspondence. In addition to looking at the letters in terms of one of the great literary accomplishments of the century, at least on a par with Boswell's Life of Johnson and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, these letters taken in aggregate offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-ceTransits (Bucknell University)Authors, English18th centuryCorrespondenceEnglish lettersHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureFriendship in literatureMasculinityEnglandHistory18th centuryElectronic books.Authors, EnglishEnglish lettersHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.Friendship in literature.MasculinityHistory828/.609Haggerty George E955722MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456492203321Horace Walpole's letters2442430UNINA