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This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between
letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a
broad selection of women and men’s letters in Britain, North
America and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed
elite. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw
on different methodological approaches that include close readings
of single letters, social historical analyses of large corpora and
a material culture approach to the object of the letter. This
research includes personal letters exchanged among family and
friends, formal correspondence and letters that were incorporated
into published forewords and appendices, journals and memoirs.
Section 1 explores the letter as a substitute for the absent body,
the imagined physical encounters and performances envisaged by
letter writers and the means through which these imagined
sensations were conveyed. Section 2 examines the letter as a
material object that served as a conduit for descriptions of the
material body and as an instrument for embodied encounters. Section
3 focuses on how correspondents purposefully used their bodies in
letters as a means to create intimacy, to generate social networks
and build a ‘body politic’. This interdisciplinary volume
centred around letters will be of interest to scholars and students
in a variety of fields including eighteenth-century studies,
cultural history and literature.
Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as
synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey
undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres
of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different
perspective, this volume builds upon recent research that pushes
beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the
ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead, it explores a
much broader pattern of travel, undertaken by people of varied
backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping
into current reactions against the reification of the Grand Tour as
a unique and distinctive practice, this volume represents an
important contribution to the ongoing process of resituating the
Grand Tour as part of a wider context of travel and
topographicalmwriting. Focusing upon practices of travel in
northern and western Europe rather than in Italy, particularly in
Britain, the Low Countries and Germany, the essays in this
collection highlight how itineraries continually evolved in
response to changing political, economic and intellectual contexts.
In so doing, the reasons for travel in northern Europe are
subjected to a similar level of detailed analysis as has previously
only been directed on Italy. By doing this, the volume demonstrates
the variety of travel experiences, including the many shorter
journeys made for pleasure, health, education and business
undertaken by travellers of varying age and background across the
period. In this way the volume brings to the fore the experiences
of varied categories of traveller - from children to businessmen -
which have traditionally been largely invisible in the
historiography of travel.
Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as
synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey
undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres
of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different
perspective, this volume builds upon recent research that pushes
beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the
ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead, it explores a
much broader pattern of travel, undertaken by people of varied
backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping
into current reactions against the reification of the Grand Tour as
a unique and distinctive practice, this volume represents an
important contribution to the ongoing process of resituating the
Grand Tour as part of a wider context of travel and
topographicalmwriting. Focusing upon practices of travel in
northern and western Europe rather than in Italy, particularly in
Britain, the Low Countries and Germany, the essays in this
collection highlight how itineraries continually evolved in
response to changing political, economic and intellectual contexts.
In so doing, the reasons for travel in northern Europe are
subjected to a similar level of detailed analysis as has previously
only been directed on Italy. By doing this, the volume demonstrates
the variety of travel experiences, including the many shorter
journeys made for pleasure, health, education and business
undertaken by travellers of varying age and background across the
period. In this way the volume brings to the fore the experiences
of varied categories of traveller - from children to businessmen -
which have traditionally been largely invisible in the
historiography of travel.
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