This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth ce

Histories of the Self interrogates historians’ work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, lette

This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an importa

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That the self is ‘performed’, created through action rather than having a prior existence, has been an important methodological intervention in our understa