Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century Haggerty George E.
Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century Haggerty George E. In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Walpole talks about himself…
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Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century Haggerty George E.
In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; his physical and mental pain; his artistic appreciation and his critical responses. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity.
Haggerty examines the ways in which Walpole presents himself as an eighteenth-century gentleman, and considers his personal relationships, his needs and aspirations, his emotionalism and his rationality--in short, his construction of himself--in order to see what it tells us about the age in general and more specifically, about masculinity in an era of social flux. It is impossible to read these letters and not come away with a vivid impression of a complex personality from another age. This study of Walpole and his
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