Discourses of Desire : Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions /
In Discourses of Desire, Linda S. Kauffman looks at a neglected genre-the love letters written by literary heroines. Tracing the development of the genre from Ovid to the twentieth-century novel, Kauffman explores through provocative and incisive readings the important implications of these amatory...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. Ovid's Heroides: "Genesis" and Genre
- 2. The Irremediable: Heloise to Abelard
- 3. Disorder and Early Sorrow: The Letters of a Portuguese Nun
- 4. Passion as Suffering: The Composition of Clarissa Harlowe
- 5. Jane Eyre: The Ties That Blind
- 6. The Author of Our Woe: Virtue Recorded in The Turn of the Screw
- 7. Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: Rosa Coldfield in Absalom, Absalom!
- 8. Poetics, Passion, and Politics in The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters
- Epilogue
- Index