Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850

Abstract

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: letters, genealogy, power 2. Ars dictaminis: the letter-writer in the machine 3. Self-reflexive letters 4. Epistolary defamiliarization 5. The lettered woman as dialectical image 6. A revolution in letters 7. The ghost of epistolarity in the nineteenth-century novel Postscript Notes Bibliography Index.