Verfasst von:	Bannet, Eve Tavor [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The letters in the story
Titelzusatz:	narrative-epistolary fiction from Aphra Behn to the Victorians
Verf.angabe:	Eve Tavor Bannet (University of Oklahoma)
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2022
Umfang:	xviii, 276 Seiten
Illustrationen:	1 Illustration
ISBN:	978-1-316-51885-4
Abstract:	"The long tradition of mixta-genera fiction, particularly favoured by women novelists, which combined fully transcribed letters and third-person narrative has been largely overlooked in literary criticism. Working with recognized formal conventions and typical thematic concerns, Tavor Bannet demonstrates how narrative epistolary novels opposed the real, situated, transactional and instrumental character of letters, with their multilateral relationships and temporally shifting readings, to merely documentary uses of letters in history and law. Analyzing issues of reading and misreading, knowledge and ignorance, communication and credulity, this study investigates how novelists adapted familiar romance plots centred on mysteries of identity to test the viability of empiricism's new culture of fact and challenge positivism's later all-pervading regime of truth. Close reading of narrative-epistolary novels by authors ranging from Aphra Behn and Charlotte Lennox to Frances Burney and Wilkie Collins tracks transgenerational debates, bringing to light both what Victorians took from their eighteenth-century forbears and what they changed"--
DOI:	doi:10.1017/9781009003698
URL:	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009003698
Schlagwörter:	(s)Englisch    / (s)Briefroman    / (z)Geschichte 1650-1900
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1947-: Letters in the story. - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York , NY Cambridge University Press, 2021 |(DLC)2021024755
RVK-Notation:	HK 1301
Sach-SW:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
K10plus-PPN:	1766065430