The letters in the story : narrative-epistolary fiction from Aphra Behn to the Victorians /

The long tradition of mixta-genera fiction, particularly favored by women novelists, which combined fully transcribed letters and third-person narrative has been largely overlooked in literary criticism. Working with recognized formal conventions and typical thematic concerns, Tavor Bannet demonstra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Letters in the Story
  • Framing Narratives and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
  • Letters and Empirical Evidence
  • Cultural Expectations and Encapsulating Letters
  • Epistolary Peripeteia
  • Hermeneutics of Perspective.