Penning Poison (PDF)
A history of anonymous letters
(Sprache: Englisch)
Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing.
'er at number 14 is dirty
Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the...
'er at number 14 is dirty
Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the...
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Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing.
'er at number 14 is dirty
Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the stories of such letters to all corners of English society over the period 1760-1939. She uncovers scandal, deception, class enmity, personal tragedy, and great loneliness. Some messages were accusatory, some libellous, others bizarre. Technology, new postal networks, forensic techniques, and the emergence of professional police all influence the phenomenon of poison
letter campaigns. This book puts the letters back into their local and psychology context, extending the work of detectives, to discover who may have written them and why.
Emily Cockayne explores the reasons and motivations for the creation and delivery of these missives and the effect on recipients - with some blasé, others driven to madness. Small communities hit by letter campaigns became places of suspicion and paranoia. By examining the ways in which these letters spread anxiety in the past Penning Poison grapples with the question of how nasty messages can turn into an epidemic. The book recovers many lost stories about how we used to write
to one another, finding that perhaps the anxieties of our internet age are not as new as we think.
'er at number 14 is dirty
Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the stories of such letters to all corners of English society over the period 1760-1939. She uncovers scandal, deception, class enmity, personal tragedy, and great loneliness. Some messages were accusatory, some libellous, others bizarre. Technology, new postal networks, forensic techniques, and the emergence of professional police all influence the phenomenon of poison
letter campaigns. This book puts the letters back into their local and psychology context, extending the work of detectives, to discover who may have written them and why.
Emily Cockayne explores the reasons and motivations for the creation and delivery of these missives and the effect on recipients - with some blasé, others driven to madness. Small communities hit by letter campaigns became places of suspicion and paranoia. By examining the ways in which these letters spread anxiety in the past Penning Poison grapples with the question of how nasty messages can turn into an epidemic. The book recovers many lost stories about how we used to write
to one another, finding that perhaps the anxieties of our internet age are not as new as we think.
Autoren-Porträt von Emily Cockayne
Emily Cockayne is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. The author of several well-known books, including Hubbub (2007; second edition 2020), Cheek by Jowl. A History of Neighbours (2012), and Rummage (2020), Emily's research ranges freely across modern English social and cultural history. It is characterized by extensive primary research, immersion, and a delight in sleuthing.
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- Autor: Emily Cockayne
- 2023, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192514245
- ISBN-13: 9780192514240
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2023
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