Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
… records of Romantic sociable practices. Objects > Diaries & Letters Practices > Reading & Writing Mots-clés Conflict Conversation Diaries Notebook Romanticism It may seem paradoxical to associate the notebook, as an object and as a form … of sociability, this is not the case for the notebook. The letter always has an addressee and as such presupposes a conversational act; the identity of the notebook addressee is far more ambiguous and ‘ever-changing’. However, the … formal level but as a practice; it then reflects the way this object becomes central in social interactions and friendly conversations. As Kevin Gilmartin remarks, romantic theory and criticism have taken little interest in sociability as …
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