The Epistolary Muse: Women of Letters in England and France, 1652-1802

ISBN-13: 9781787074880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 348 str.

Adrian Kempton

Opis

Epistolary fiction was in full flower during the period from 1652 to 1802, including the masterworks of Richardson and Laclos. This study traces the development of the art of letter-writing and familiar correspondence and its adaptation by women writers into a remarkable range of literary genres, both fictional and non-fictional.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Model letter-writers - Manuals and miscellanies - Educational letter-novels - Epistolary essays and arguments - Travellers' dispatches - Letters home from exotic visitors - Unreciprocated love-letters - Epistolary memoirs, journals and diaries - Letters and epistles in verse - The multiple-voice letter-novel in England - The multiple-voice letter-novel in France.

O autorze

Adrian Kempton was formerly lecturer in French, English and Comparative Literature at Queen's University Belfast, University College Cork and the University of London Institute in Paris. He specializes in comparative eighteenth-century studies, with particular interests in epistolary writing, robinsonades, early children's literature, salon art criticism and gardens. His publications include Survey of English Literature: From the Restoration to Pre-Romanticism, English for Science and The Mind's Isle: Imaginary Islands in English Fiction (Peter Lang, 2017). He is at present preparing a two-part study of the verse novel and poetry in the novel.