TY - BOOK ID - 78146755 TI - Horace Walpole's letters AU - Haggerty, George E AU - Bucknell University Press. PY - 2011 SN - 1283163527 9786613163523 1611480116 9781611480115 9780838758175 9781611480108 9781283163521 661316352X 1611480108 PB - Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University Press DB - UniCat KW - Authors, English KW - English letters KW - Masculinity in literature. KW - Friendship in literature. KW - Masculinity KW - Masculinity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Men KW - Masculinity (Psychology) in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Walpole, Horace, KW - Muralto, Onuphrio, KW - Orford, Horace Walpole, KW - Uolpol, Gorat︠s︡iĭ, KW - Walpole, Horatio, KW - H. W. KW - W., H. KW - Hōrēs Vālpōl, KW - Vālpōl, Hōrēs, KW - Marshall, William, KW - Marshal, William, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78146755 AB - 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 writes about the letters themselves, which span forty-eight volumes of correspondence. In addition to looking at the letters in terms of one of the great literary accomplishments of the century, at least on a par with Boswell's Life of Johnson and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, these letters taken in aggregate offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-ce ER -