... Gisborne, represents Shelley’s sophisticated epistolary practice, where the letter becomes far more than mere ore to be mined by biographical criticism just as the poem goes beyond the parameters of being a verse version of a private letter. Callaghan Madeleine Gisborne John Gisborne Maria...

...This chapter considers the physical and emotional intimacies of both epistolary practice and the rope belay of mountaineering as affective “binding lines,” examples of the body’s “webbed relations”. These two activities are brought together in the figures of Virginia Woolf and the mountaineer...