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- catalog abstract ""Thomas O. Beebee examines epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon in Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. His study is the first to consider epistolary fiction as a pan-European form of importance to all major European languages. It demonstrates that such fiction can be found everywhere, not just in texts aimed specifically at aesthetic consumption. Beebee begins with the premise that the letter was a Protean form which crystallized social relationships in a variety of ways, and that fictional uses of the letter appropriated the status and power the letter had already acquired from its established functions within other discursive practices. He discusses the letter-writing manual, self-referential aspects of the letter, news and travel reporting, the relationship between letters and gender, and historically specific use of epistolarity by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The book also offers a bibliography of major European epistolary fiction to 1850."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11049110.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Thomas O. Beebee examines epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon in Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. His study is the first to consider epistolary fiction as a pan-European form of importance to all major European languages. It demonstrates that such fiction can be found everywhere, not just in texts aimed specifically at aesthetic consumption. Beebee begins with the premise that the letter was a Protean form which crystallized social relationships in a variety of ways, and that fictional uses of the letter appropriated the status and power the letter had already acquired from its established functions within other discursive practices. He discusses the letter-writing manual, self-referential aspects of the letter, news and travel reporting, the relationship between letters and gender, and historically specific use of epistolarity by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The book also offers a bibliography of major European epistolary fiction to 1850."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: letters, genealogy, power -- 2. Ars dictaminis: the letter-writer in the machine -- 3. Self-reflexive letters -- 4. Epistolary defamiliarization -- 5. The lettered woman as dialectical image -- 6. A revolution in letters -- 7. The ghost of espistolarity in the nineteenth-century novel.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-266) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 277 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521622751".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "809.3 21".
- catalog subject "Epistolary fiction, European History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN3491 .B415 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: letters, genealogy, power -- 2. Ars dictaminis: the letter-writer in the machine -- 3. Self-reflexive letters -- 4. Epistolary defamiliarization -- 5. The lettered woman as dialectical image -- 6. A revolution in letters -- 7. The ghost of espistolarity in the nineteenth-century novel.".
- catalog title "Epistolary fiction in Europe, 1500-1850 / Thomas O. Beebee.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".