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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kauffman, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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