Lights at the dawn of the Great War, how is friendship in private correspondence in France and England, or even between nationals of these two European powers? How do letters reflect the possible developments in this emotional relationship in a period of profound changes in which sociability models are reconfigured?
This work aims to shed light on friendship in light of the form of codified, but flexible form of sociability, that constitutes the epistolary exchange. He is interested in different types of epistolary friendships in the era where, in France as in the United Kingdom, the valuation of privacy is accompanied by a new consciousness of the individual. In the 18th and 19th centuries, friendly correspondence was indeed one of the privileged practices of intimate. But, responsible for making up for the absence and registering the relationship over time, the letter constitutes the fragile medium of a friendly friendly friendship.
In this period of multiple sociohistoric upheavals, correspondence may however be right for individual mobility, ideologies, tensions and borders. Before other modes of communication impose themselves, they constitute a privileged material to understand an elective interpersonal relationship likely to turn into a feeling of love, to exhaust, or even to turn into enmity.
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