LEADER 03139nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910781322103321 005 20230725050517.0 010 $a1-283-16352-7 010 $a9786613163523 010 $a1-61148-011-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039332 035 $a(EBL)730749 035 $a(OCoLC)741492729 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537631 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12222906 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537631 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10554278 035 $a(PQKB)10702688 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC730749 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL730749 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483535 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316352 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039332 100 $a20100504d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHorace Walpole's letters$b[electronic resource] $emasculinity and friendship in the eighteenth century /$fGeorge E. Haggerty 210 $aLewisburg, Pa. $cBucknell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (189 p.) 225 1 $aTransits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61148-010-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aOver the course of his life, which spanned the eighteenth century from 1717 to 1797, Horace Walpole wrote thousands of letters to his closest friends and acquaintances. In this study, George E. Haggerty writes about the letters themselves, which span forty-eight volumes of correspondence. In addition to looking at the letters in terms of one of the great literary accomplishments of the century, at least on a par with Boswell's Life of Johnson and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, these letters taken in aggregate offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-ce 410 0$aTransits (Bucknell University) 606 $aAuthors, English$y18th century$vCorrespondence 606 $aEnglish letters$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMasculinity in literature 606 $aFriendship in literature 606 $aMasculinity$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aAuthors, English 615 0$aEnglish letters$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 615 0$aFriendship in literature. 615 0$aMasculinity$xHistory 676 $a828/.609 700 $aHaggerty$b George E$0955722 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781322103321 996 $aHorace Walpole's letters$93803017 997 $aUNINA