Special Delivery: Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

by Linda S. Kauffman

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Though letter writing is almost a lost art, twentieth-century writers have mimed the epistolary mode as a means of reevaluating the theme of love. In Special Delivery, Linda S. Kauffman places the narrative treatment of love in historical context, showing how politics, economics, and commodity culture have shaped the meaning of desire.

Kauffman first considers male writers whose works, testing the boundaries of genre and gender, imitate...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226426815

ISBN13:9780226426815

Release Date:October 1997

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:310 Pages

Weight:0.98 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Gender Studies History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences

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