dc.contributor.author	Summerfield, Henry
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-04T17:39:41Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-04T17:39:41Z
dc.date.copyright	2019	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-12-04
dc.description.abstract	A cultural change in the Renaissance freed talented European writers to compose letters rivalling the finest that survived from ancient Rome. This book traces the lives and outlooks of distinguished Britons as revealed in their correspondence. The subjects range from the fierce satirist Jonathan Swift to the long-lived, all-observing Horace Walpole and from the poet and freedom fighter Lord Byron to the tormented but brilliant Jane Carlyle. Accompanying the self-portraits these writers unwittingly create are their many sketches of their contemporaries. Moreover, the views they express on forms of government, feminism, literature, theology, religious toleration, and other topics serve to relate their lives to the progression from the Age of Reason through the Romantic period to the Victorian era.	en
dc.description.reviewstatus	Unreviewed	en_US
dc.description.scholarlevel	Faculty	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781550586480 (PDF)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781550586497 (EPUB)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781550586473 (PRINT)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11348
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	English letters--History and criticism.	en_US
dc.subject	Letter writing--History	en_US
dc.subject	Letters in literature	en_US
dc.subject	Epistolary fiction, English--History and criticism	en_US
dc.title	From Family to Philosophy: Letter-Writers from the Pastons to Elizabeth Barrett Browning	en
dc.type	Book	en_US

From Family to Philosophy: Letter-Writers from the Pastons to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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