Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters by Elizabeth Cook

Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters

Elizabeth Cook

252 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

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Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccobon...

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