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An Autoethnography of Letter Writing and Relationships Through Time: Finding Our Perfect Moon is about love letters, stories, and the ability of words to bring people together across time and physical space. Weaving together edited and annotated letters between a young couple in the 1930s with interludes of autoethnographic reflection, the book relates the author's experiences as she has negotiated this project over 20 years. Reading the letters is a sepia-toned window into the very private world of two young, well-educated Jewish-American people who lived their lives against the backdrop of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and Prohibition. The author uses reflective autoethnographic interludes to tell the story of finding the letters and to explore the significance of letters as a communicative genre. Adams considers the ethical implications of being a researcher eavesdropping on private moments in others' lives, and she explores the function of dialogue in the development of the romantic relationship that unfolds in the letters and between the letters and her. The author also advocates for the everyday relational communication practices that collectively comprise life's most important experiences. Students and researchers interested in letter-writing, autoethnography, and relationship development will find relevance in this book. It will also be of value to those interested in letter collections, the ethical implications of intimate research on people from the past who cannot offer consent, the role of nostalgia in interpersonal communication, and anyone who thrills at a love story told from primary documents from the past.

Ethnology --- Letter writing. --- Social psychology. --- Authorship.

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« Il existe un livre bien connu, La Grande Étude des femmes (Onna daigaku), qui considère que seules les femmes sont coupables et qui les attaque violemment, mais moi, j'ai vraiment pitié de ces femmes. J'en viens à vouloir écrire un livre que j'intitulerais La Grande Étude des hommes (Otoko daigaku), où je critiquerais les hommes. » Dans une lettre privée adressée à un ami en 1870, Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901), penseur le plus influent de son époque, déclare la guerre à la conception de la femme que la morale confucianiste impose au Japon, notamment grâce à La Grande Étude des femmes, manuel de la bonne épouse destiné aux jeunes filles des classes supérieures. Il va mener ce combat jusqu'à sa mort, dans un ensemble de textes publié ici en français pour la première fois. Ses écrits confirment que les questions de la femme et du couple sont des enjeux stratégiques du processus de modernisation d'un pays."

Women --- Femmes --- Conditions sociales --- Essays. --- Letter writing. --- Philosophy, Japanese. --- Social conditions.

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Letter writing, Latin --- Latin letters --- Correspondance latine --- Lettres latines (Genre littéraire) --- Bonfiglio,

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"This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women and men's letters in Britain, North America and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite. This interdisciplinary volume centred around letters will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields including eighteenth-century studies, cultural history and literature"--

Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Human body in literature. --- Letter writing --- Letters --- History.

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En un siècle marqué par d'incessantes querelles théologiques et d'innombrables conflits armés, auxquels s'ajoutent des tensions entre l'Église, l'État et le parti des « Philosophes », les correspondances constituent un lieu privilégié pour observer les mécanismes de surveillance. De fait, parmi les lettré·es du dix-huitième siècle, la communication épistolaire s'inscrit au cœur de la vie quotidienne. Familière avec cette surveillance, l'élite des Lumières s'amuse d'ailleurs souvent des missives décachetées, quand elle ne se moque pas directement des indiscrets, les enjoignant même à poursuivre leur lecture. Documents à la fois publics et privés, littéralement situées au carrefour de toutes les formes d'activités, ces lettres sont parfois détruites, perdues ou oubliées. Alors que certaines demeurent à jamais scellées ou muettes, d'autres font partie du patrimoine littéraire européen. Que ce soit dans des lettres amicales, des correspondances diplomatiques ou dans des rapports de police, on dissimule et (se) surveille. Aussi les huit articles qui composent ce volume proposent-ils une traversée épistolaire du dix-huitième siècle européen en s'intéressant à des personnages oubliés ou célèbres, voire à des inconnus, qui tous ont dû écrire leurs correspondances en surveillant ou en se sachant épiés.--In a century marked by innumerable armed conflicts and incessant theological quarrels, including tensions between the Church, the State and the Philosophes, literary correspondence provides a privileged site via which to examine the mechanisms of surveillance. Epistolary communication was at the heart of daily life among the eighteenth-century literati. Familiar with methods of surveillance, the Enlightenment elite often amused themselves by sending unsealed missives, or else directly mocked those with prying eyes, even urging them to continue reading. Both public and private documents, located at the crossroads of all forms of activity, these letters have at times been destroyed, lost or forgotten. While some remain forever sealed or silenced, others form part of Europe's literary heritage. Whether in letters between friends, diplomatic correspondence or police reports, one conceals and surveils oneself. The eight articles that constitute this volume offer an epistolary journey through eighteenth-century Europe by focusing on forgotten or famous people, even unknowns, all of whom must have written their correspondence while watching or knowing that they were being watched.

Espionage --- European letters --- Letter writing --- Espionnage --- Lettres européennes (Genre littéraire) --- Espionage. --- History. --- Dix-huitième siècle --- Europe --- secret --- surveillance --- réseaux épistolaires --- Eighteenth-century --- epistolary networks --- History --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique. --- 18th century --- Europe. --- Dix-huitième siècle --- Europe --- secret --- surveillance --- réseaux épistolaires --- Eighteenth-century --- epistolary networks