Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850

Thomas O. Beebee offers a history of epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon practiced across Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. He shows how epistolary fiction appropriated the status and power the letter had already acquired, and goes on to explore a number of related discourses and themes, including the letter writing manual, self-referential aspects of the letter, news and travel reporting, the relationship between letters and gender, and historically-specific letter writing by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors including Austen, Balzac, and Dostoevsky. There is a bibliography of major European epistolary fiction to 1850.

Author: Thomas O. Beebee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/28/1999
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.28w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780521622752