Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions

This book made me read (or re-read) the Heroides, Clarissa, Jane Eyre, the Portuguese nun's letters and the correspondance between Abelard and Heloise. Many half-forgotten connections, some of them surprising, were brought to light. As a delicacy, I should add it helped me to deal with an old epistolary relationship of mine. I realized how many foolish insinuations and hopes are half-hidden in every love letter. In short, the book was an enrichment for my modestly emerging academic self. (how many books really are, nowadays?)