The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness

by Joe Bray

Book Overview

The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel.
Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138008729
• ISBN13: 9781138008724
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"