Victorian Love Letters in Literature and Art
«This book is a fascinating study of the love letter in a rich historical context, in which painting played an essential part – not merely illustrating epistolary dynamics, but creating them. Roberta Zanasi’s very engaging approach creates a fresh and significant subject in literary and art criticis...
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| description | «This book is a fascinating study of the love letter in a rich historical context, in which painting played an essential part – not merely illustrating epistolary dynamics, but creating them. Roberta Zanasi’s very engaging approach creates a fresh and significant subject in literary and art criticism. A great read.» (Clare Brant, King’s College London) In Victorian times, when postal reforms and technological progress revolutionized communication, letter writing became more widespread than ever. Love letters, in particular, continued to be central in the courtship ritual. However, as new ideas about love and marriage came along, they no longer exclusively represented the quintessential romantic form in the popular imagination. Through a close analysis of a broad corpus of Victorian correspondences, novels and paintings, this book demonstrates that novelists and painters who dealt with the ever-recurring themes of love and marriage could not refrain from incorporating an epistolary element into their works. Letters still inspired artists of all kinds, and advances in communications, rather than displacing them, made people more aware of the essence and potentiality of this medium. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1769962026-06-04T05:07:50Z Victorian Love Letters in Literature and Art Zanasi, Roberta Bullen Epistolarity Laurel Letter writing Letters Literature Love Love letters Marriage Plapp Roberta Victorian Victorian age Zanasi thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DND Diaries, letters and journals thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FY Fiction: special features::FYD Epistolary fiction thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGP Man-made objects depicted in art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism «This book is a fascinating study of the love letter in a rich historical context, in which painting played an essential part – not merely illustrating epistolary dynamics, but creating them. Roberta Zanasi’s very engaging approach creates a fresh and significant subject in literary and art criticism. A great read.» (Clare Brant, King’s College London) In Victorian times, when postal reforms and technological progress revolutionized communication, letter writing became more widespread than ever. Love letters, in particular, continued to be central in the courtship ritual. However, as new ideas about love and marriage came along, they no longer exclusively represented the quintessential romantic form in the popular imagination. Through a close analysis of a broad corpus of Victorian correspondences, novels and paintings, this book demonstrates that novelists and painters who dealt with the ever-recurring themes of love and marriage could not refrain from incorporating an epistolary element into their works. Letters still inspired artists of all kinds, and advances in communications, rather than displacing them, made people more aware of the essence and potentiality of this medium. 2026-05-30T05:01:40Z 2026-05-30T05:01:40Z 2026-05-29T11:27:36Z 2024 book ONIX_20260529T115621_9781803743493_5 1662-0364 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113822 9781803743493 9781803743509 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176996 eng Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113822/1/9781803743493.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113822/1/9781803743493.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b21432 10.3726/b21432 44a712f0-ee17-4c08-a667-46effed595e7 9781803743493 9781803743509 338 Bern open access |
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