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"In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies physical and mental pain; his artistic appreciation and his critical responses. It is impossible to read these letters and not come away with a vivid impression of a complex personality from another age. Haggerty examines the ways in which Walpole presents himself as an eighteenth-century gentleman, and co."@en
"Over the course of his life, which spanned the eighteenth century from 1717 to 1797, Horace Walpole wrote thousands of letters to his closest friends and acquaintances. In this study, George E. Haggerty considers, the letters themselves, arguing that they need to appreciated on their own terms as one of the great literary accomplishments of the eighteenth century, on a par with Boswell's Life of Johnson and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. RI the aggregate, Walpole's letters offer all astonishing account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century life and of an intimate view of an alternative masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; his physical and mental pain; his artistic appreciation and his critical responses, and with critical tact and historical insight. Haggerty elicits the contours of his complex personality, Looking closely at Walpole's personal relationships, his needs and aspirations, his emotionalism, and his rationality, in short, his construction of himself, Haggerty opens a window onto both the history of masculinity in the eighteenth century and the codification of friendship as the preeminent value in Western culture. --Book Jacket."

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