Letterworlds in Late Nineteenth-Century France - 9781009619004

Letterworlds in Late Nineteenth-Century FranceThe Epistolary Culture of Mallarm, Morisot, Van Gogh, Czanne, and Zola\nAuthor(s): Susan Harrow\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009619004, 978-1009619004\nSynopsis\nToday'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.