A Sea of Love

The Atlantic Correspondence of Francis and Mathilde Lieber, 1839-1845
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34424-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 870 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1356 g

Reihe: Brill's Specials in Modern History

A Sea of Love presents 95 letters exchanged between Hamburg and Antebellum USA by the famous Berlin born scholar, encyclopedist, and knowledge broker Francis Lieber (1798-1872) and his wife, Hamburg born Mathilde in 1839-1845. Their letters offer rare insights in the privacy of marriage and family life, self perceptions, notions of surroundings, as well as mental settings of the spouses. Beyond genuine individual phenomena of their Atlantic emotions their epistles show ways and methods of international communication and networking. Their writings reflect general notions and ideas shared by well-educated citizens of an Atlantic Republic of Letters connected by culture, interests, and emotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schnurmann, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations/Symbols

CV Franz/Francis Lieber (1798–1872) and Mathilde Lieber née Oppenheimer (1805–1890)

List of the Selected 95 Letters in Chronological Order of the Date of Their Beginning Time Frame and Place of Writing, Author, Receiver, and Final Destination

Tokens of Love

Letters

Sources

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claudia Schnurmann, Ph.D. (1988), University Hamburg, Professor of Atlantic History, published widely on topics from late 15th to early 21st century, including Brücken aus Papier. Atlantischer Wissenstransfer in dem Briefnetzwerk des deutsch-amerikanischen Ehepaars Francis und Mathilde Lieber, 1827-1872 (LitVerlag, 2014) which deals with 19th century Atlantic knowledge.