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Diana G Barnes

@dianagbarnes.bsky.social

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Early Modern Literature @ University of New England (Australia) Letters, Emotions, Early Modern Women, Neostoicism & Bubbles

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Diana G Barnes @dianagbarnes.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present edited by @dianagbarnes.bsky.social & @katieebarclay.bsky.social explores how letters have served as powerful tools for expressing, performing & shaping emotional experiences across cultures & historical contexts bit.ly/3IZVdhG

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Diana G Barnes @dianagbarnes.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Look what the postman delivered today: Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present (Bloomsbury 2025) www.bloomsbury.com/au/emotions-...

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook

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Diana G Barnes @dianagbarnes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Delighted to report that my article on Mme de Sévigné’s letters has been published in special issue on Forum for Modern Language Studies edited by Valentina Gosetti and Giulia Torello Hill. And it’s Open Access. academic.oup.com/fmls/advance...

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Madame de Sévigné’s Letters and the Formation of Elite Community

Abstract. This article concerns the role played by letters written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame de Sévigné (1626–96) to her daughter Francoise-Margu

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Diana G Barnes @dianagbarnes.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Last night I was honoured to receive a prize for my 2020 essay “Animal-human compassion: structures of feeling in dark pastoral”. Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 4.1 (2020): 183-208. This was my response to the emotional devastation of drought and fire in 2019.

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Diana G Barnes @dianagbarnes.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Each year my father makes a birthday card for me. Here’s this year’s. Reckon I’m 19 or 20 in this snap.

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