About the talk
Modern notions of love arguably arose in the mid-eighteenth century, influenced by the Enlightenment cult of sensibility and the sentimental notions of childhood and the family. However, this does not suggest that love was absent in the previous era. By looking at the personal papers of the Clitherow family, who resided at Boston Manor, this talk considers how love in the family might have been understood and experienced in the early modern era.
About the speaker
Angela Platt is a Humanities scholar whose research interests focus (broadly) on love, religion, and the family from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. She currently works as a Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Course Lead for English Literature at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. Her recent and forthcoming publications focus on love in religious communities; she has an upcoming chapter with Bloomsbury titled ‘Love and the Divine’ in the Cultural History of Love in the Nineteenth Century.
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