Discourses of desire : gender, genre, and epistolary fictions / by Linda S. Kauffman
1986, First Edition. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #442059
ISBN: 0801418534
Physical description; 331p ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Ovid's "Heroides": "genesis" and genre -- The irremediable: Heloise to Abelard -- Disorder and early sorrow: "The letters of a Portuguese nun" -- Passion as suffering: the composition of Clarissa Harlowe -- "Jane Eyre": the ties that bind -- The author of our woe: virtue recorded in "The turn of the screw" -- Devious channels of decorous ordering: Rosa Coldfield in "Absalom, Absalom!" -- Poetics, passion, and politics in "The three Marias: new Portuguese letters." Subjects; Love in literature. Love-letters History. Letters in literature. Epistolary fiction History and criticism. Women and literature. Love-letters History and criticism. Women in literature.
Price: €21.95