Epistolary fiction in Europe, 1500-1850 / Thomas O. Beebee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beebee, Thomas O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epistolary fiction, European--History and criticism.

Epistolary fiction, European.

Physical Description:

x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Summary:

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 Dostoyevsky. There is a bibliography of major European epistolary fiction to 1850.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-266) and index.

ISBN:

0521622751

OCLC:

39478151