| Description |
xiii, 296 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Women and the art of letter writing: A courtesan's voice: epistolary self-portaiture in Veronica Franco's Terze rime / Margaret F. Rosenthal. Male models of feminine epistolarity; or, how to write like a woman in seventeenth-century France / Katharine A. Jensen. Authority, authenticity, and the publication of letters by women / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- The female epistolary voice in the eighteenth century: Female resources: epistles, plot, and power / Patricia Meyer Spacks. Innovation and convention in Sophie La Roche's The story of Miss von Sternheim and Rosalia's letters / Sally Winkle. Narrative cross-dressing and the critique of authorship in the novels of Richardson / James Carson. Letters from the Harem: veiled figures of writing in Montesquieu's Lettres persanes / Suzanne Rodin Pucci. Fanny's fanny: epistolarity, eroticism, and the transsexual text / Julia Epstein. In search of a female voice: Les liaisons dangereuses / Susan K. Jackson. Graffigny's epistemology and the emergence of third-world ideology / Janet Gurkin Altman. Writing to the divine Marquis: epistolary strategies of Madame de Sade and Milli Rousset / Julie C. Hayes. |
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(cont.) Gender and epistolarity in a modern key: Special delivery: twenty-first-century epistolarity in The handmaid's tale / Linda Kauffman. No body there: on the politics of interlocution / Alicia Borinsky. Authorship and authority: George Sand's letters to her mother / Kathryn Crecelius. "Trying to do without God": the revision of epistolary address in The color purple / Carolyn Williams. |
| Subject |
Letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Letters -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Goldsmith, Elizabeth C.
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| ISBN |
1555530389 (alk. paper) : $32.50 |
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