Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850Cambridge University Press, 28. märts 1999 - 277 pages Thomas O. Beebee offers a history of epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon practiced across Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. He shows how epistolary fiction appropriated the status and power the letter had already acquired, and goes on to explore a number of related discourses and themes, including the letter writing manual, self-referential aspects of the letter, news and travel reporting, the relationship between letters and gender, and historically-specific letter writing by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors including Austen, Balzac, and Dostoevsky. There is a bibliography of major European epistolary fiction to 1850. |
Contents
the letterwriter in the machine | 18 |
Selfreflexive letters | 48 |
18 | 58 |
48 | 74 |
The lettered woman as dialectical image | 117 |
A revolution in letters | 137 |
The ghost of epistolarity in the nineteenthcentury novel | 166 |
Postscript | 199 |
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| 267 | |
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| Pealkiri | Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850 |
| Autor | Thomas O. Beebee |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0521622751, 9780521622752 |
| Length | 277 pages |
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