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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"epistolary novels"”.
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Perilous Pedagogies: Women's Education and Epistolarity from Rousseau to Charrière
… certain prominent late eighteenth-century French epistolary novels deal with the issue of women's education and the possibility of its reform. The debate of the latter half of the century is firmly centered on Rousseau, who wrote both a best-selling epistolary novel dealing with the position of …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
<p>While some might consider epistolary novels of the long-eighteenth century as the sentimental purview of women readers, this research proposes that many of these epistolary novels serve as powerful markers in the gender wars of this era. While an overall sense of optimism pervaded Britain’s …
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Melancholic epistolarity : letters and traumatic exile in the novels of three Francophone women
In her 1982 groundbreaking work on the epistolary form in novels, Janet Gurkin Altman gives a working definition of epistolarity which will be a guiding concept for this project; she defines it simply as: “the use of the letter’s formal properties to create meaning…” (Altman 4). Of course, to …
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Family relationships and masculinity in Fanny Burney's Evelina and Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
… von La Roche wrote and published successful novels in the late eighteenth century, little work has been done to compare these authors’ oeuvres. It is conceivable that La Roche’s work had an influence on Burney’s, and this possibility is especially strong for their first novels. La Roche’s …