Epistolary Bodies Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters |
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| Author:
| Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-2538-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1996 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Proceeding from the perspective of Jürgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular 18th-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of Montesquieu, Richardson, Riccoboni, and Crèvecoeur.
Proceeding from the perspective of Jürgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular 18th-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of Montesquieu, Richardson, Riccoboni, and Crèvecoeur.