Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850

Zusammenfassung This book explores epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon across Europe from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: letters, genealogy, power; 2. Ars dictaminis: the letter-writer in the machine; 3. Self-reflexive letters; 4. Epistolary defamiliarization; 5. The lettered woman as dialectical image; 6. A revolution in letters; 7. The ghost of epistolarity in the nineteenth-century novel; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Thomas O. Beebee, Thomas O. (Pennsylvania State University) Beebee
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521025089
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02508-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies