Love letters : saving romance in the digital age /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Series: | Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Stuff of Love: The Historical and Cultural Significance of (Saving) Love Letters; What Is a Love Letter?; What Is Cultural About Romantic Love?; Connecting Love and Letters; Love Letter Curatorial Practices; 2 The Digitization of Love: Technology and Communication Within Romantic Relationships; Romantic Relationships in a Digital World; Digital and Paper Love Letters as Cultural Objects; Curatorial Practices Surrounding Digital and Paper Love Letters
- Literacy, Letters, and the Digital Divide3 Space Matters: Where and How Love Letters Are "Curated"; Storage, Tidying Up, and Too Much Stuff; Where Are the Love Letters, and Why Does Location Matter?; Gender, Heteronormativity, and Love Letter Storage; 4 Time Matters: Nostalgia, Preserving Love Letters, and the Social Construction of Time and Memory; Age and the Digitization of Love Letters; Saving Love Letters and the Allure of Nostalgia; Playing With Time: Imagined Future Kinship Nostalgia; 5 Love Letters as Both Individual and Collective: The Public Significance of Private Communications
- Choice, Constraint, and Culture: Love Letters as (a) Social MatterLove and Fear in the Digital World: The Cultural Work of Emotions; A New Conceptual Framework; Privilege and the Fear of Love Letter Loss; Methodological Appendix; Bibliography; Index