160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced.... Read more
1. Introduction: Consciousness, The Novel and The Letter 2. Sex and Politics: The Epistolary Novel before 1740 3. Reserve and Memory: Richardson and the Experiencing Self 4. Sentiment and Sensibility: The Late Eighteenth-Century Letter 5. From First to Third: Austen and Epistolary Style 6. Postcript: The Case of Herzog
Biography
Joe Bray lectures in Literary Stylistics at the University of Stirling, having previously held positions at the Universities of Strathclyde, Cambridge and Luton. He has published on Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen and is co-editor of Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page (Ashgate, 2000).
