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An Audience of One : Dorothy Osborne's Letters to Sir William Temple, 1652-1654 /
When first published in 1888, the letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple - written between 1652 and 1654 - created a kind of cult phenomenon in the Victorian period. Osborne and Temple, both in their early twenties, shared a romance that was opposed by their families, and Osborne herself was a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Dorothy Osborne's Letters
- 1. Dorothy Osborne's Courtship
- 2. An Audience of One: Dorothy Osborne as a Letter Writer
- 3. Shared Privacies: Reading in the Osborne-Temple Courtship
- 4. Imagining the Couple: Triangularity and Surveillance
- 5. 'Dearer to mee than the whole world besy'ds': Illness and Emotional Attachment in Osborne's Letters
- Afterword: A 'Round and Populous' World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index