The Letters in the Story: Narrative-Epistolary Fiction from Aphra Behn to the Victorians

ISBN-13: 9781316518854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

Eve (University of Oklahoma) Tavor Bannet

Opis

First study of a long tradition of mixed-mode writing, largely favored by British women novelists, that combined fully-transcribed letters with third-person narrative.

Recenzje

'This is a book that should be read and its insights pondered by everyone who teaches English fiction between Aphra Behn and Anthony Trollope … The Letters in the Story packs a huge amount of erudition and analytic acuity into a relatively small number of pages … a major contribution to our understanding of viewpoint and meaning in the pre-twentieth-century novel in English.' Robert D. Hume, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

Spis treści

Preface: 'To the reader'; Introduction: The letters in the story; 1. Framing narratives and the hermeneutics of suspicion; 2. Letters and empirical evidence; 3. Cultural expectations and encapsulating letters; 4. Epistolary Peripeteia; 5. Hermeneutics of perspective.