Writing Love: Letters, Women, and the Novel in France,1605-1776

by Katharine Ann Jensen

In this compelling new addition to Sandra M. Gilbert's Ad Feminam: Women and Literature series, Katharine Ann Jensen examines the cultural form of the love letter and its intersection with the novel in the works of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French women writers. Traditionally, French literary history has focused on eighteenth-century male writers Rousseau and Laclos as the master artists of the epistolary novel. That emphasis on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809318490
• ISBN13: 9780809318490
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"