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]
Subjects:
Epistolary fiction > History and criticism.
Femininity in literature.
Letter writing in literature.
Love-letters in literature.
Letters in literature.
Women and literature.
Desire in literature.
Love in literature.
Féminité dans la littérature.
Lettres d'amour dans la littérature.
Lettres (Genre littéraire) dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature.
Désir dans la littérature.
Amour dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes > Women.
Desire in literature
Epistolary fiction
Femininity in literature
Letter writing in literature
Letters in literature
Love in literature
Love-letters in literature
Women and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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

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