Discourses of Desire : : Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions / / Linda Kauffman.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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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