| Description |
331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ovid's Heroides: "Genesis" and Genre -- The Search for the Lost Father -- The Heroines' Discourses -- The Trace of Sappho -- The Irremediable: Heloise to Abelard -- The Forms of Tyranny, the Tyranny of Forms -- The Literary History of the Letters -- Disorder and Early Sorrow: The Letters of a Portuguese Nun -- Writing under Erasure -- Barbin's Avis -- The Metamorphosis of Rhetoric -- Passion as Suffering: The Composition of Clarissa Harlowe -- Forward, Backward , and Belfour -- The Lady's Legacy: The Trace of Ovid -- "When Honor's at the Stake": Clarissa's Elegy of Desire -- Jane Eyre: The Ties That Blind -- Charlotte Bronte's Letter to M. Heger -- Blind Mouths: Critics of Gender and Jane Eyre -- Jane Eyre's Blind Idolatry -- The Author of Our Woe: Virtue Recorded in The Turn of the Screw -- Copies of Desire -- The Game of Equivocations -- The Body in the Prologue -- Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: Rosa Coldfield in Absalom, Absalom! -- Alien Discourse -- Another Lost Father, Another Search -- Theseus, Dionysus, and Ariadne's Thread -- The Ledger -- The Loom -- Poetics, Passion, and Politics in the Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters -- Laws and Outlaws -- Masks and Veils, Miming and Mimesis -- Disjointed Letters, Long Farewells -- The Critical Reception. |
| Provenance |
Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection |
| Subject |
Love in literature.
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Love in literature. |
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Love-letters -- History.
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Love-letters. |
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History. |
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Letters in literature.
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Letters in literature. |
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Epistolary fiction -- History and criticism.
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Epistolary fiction. |
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Women and literature.
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Women and literature. |
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Desire in literature.
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Desire in literature. |
| ISBN |
0801495105 paperback |
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9780801495106 paperback |
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