Love Letters and Writing Practices
On Écritures Intimes in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martyn Lyons (0000-0001-7496-541X, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 232-239 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036319909902400206 |
| OpenAlex | W2020250483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Recent approaches to the history of nineteenth-century writing focus not on the contents of intimate writing but rather on letters as cultural artifacts. What is important is what their existence tells us about the act of writing as a cultural practice and about what writing meant to those who practiced it. Personal writings are highly coded forms, obeying generally accepted conventions and applying and adapting unspoken formulas. Using examples from France and Australasia, this article suggests the need to unravel the social grammar of private writings in the cultural exchanges of the nineteenth-century middle classes
Art · Cultural history · Grammar · Linguistics · Literature · Sociology · Anthropology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · History · Philosophy
A ‘Boy’s Own’ Adventure
Love in the Time of Migration
Capturing emotions in the factory
Negotiating Patriarchy
« J’avais tant besoin d’être aimée … par correspondance »
Love during China’s Cultural Revolution
The Epistolary Pact, Letterness
Questo cor che tuo si rese’
Sex, Gender, and Romantic Intimacy in Servicemen's Letters During the Second World War
A Wesleyan work ethic? Entrepreneurship and Weber’s protestant work ethic in the case of Isaac Holden, c. 1807–1897
Love Writes
| Citations per year | 0.52 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |