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

Elizabeth Cook (Author)

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Publication Date: July 1, 1996

Proceeding from the perspective of Jürgen Habermas’s public sphere theory, this book studies the popular 18th-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of Montesquieu, Richardson, Riccoboni, and Crèvecoeur.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University and one of the contributors to Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Veronica Kelly and Dorothea E. von Mucke (Stanford, forthcoming).

Product Details

Hardcover: 252 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (July 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804725381
ISBN-13: 978-0804725385
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,071,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 books cite this book:

The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot by Leah Price in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Self-Fashioning of an Early Modern Englishwoman: Mary Carleton's Lives by Mary Jo Kietzman on page 192, and Back Matter
The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-century Circle of Acquaintance by Temma F. Berg in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782 by Aurora Wolfgang on page 57, and Back Matter
American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World by Susan Scott Parrish on page 138

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