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

by Elizabeth Cook

Book Overview

Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782).The author situates epistolary narratives in the contexts of eighteenth-century print culture: the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804725381
• ISBN13: 9780804725385
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"