Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters

by Elizabeth Cook

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Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782).The author situates epistolary narratives in the contexts of eighteenth-century print culture: the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804725381

ISBN13:9780804725385

Release Date:July 1996

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"

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