First study of a long tradition of mixed-mode writing, largely favored by British women novelists, that combined fully-transcribed letters with third-person narrative

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1. Verfasser:	Bannet, Eve Tavor 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1650-1900 Briefroman Englisch Electronic books
Online-Zugang:	UBA01
Zusammenfassung:	First study of a long tradition of mixed-mode writing, largely favored by British women novelists, that combined fully-transcribed letters with third-person narrative Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface: "To the Reader" -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Letters in the Story -- Some Characteristics of Narrative-Epistolary Fictions -- Mystery Plots and Romance Conventions -- Letters, Mystery Plots, and Occasional Selves -- Continuities and Historical Shifts -- Chapter 1 Framing Narratives and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion -- Introduction: The Great Tradition from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen -- Establishing the Framing Convention: Behn's Love Letters, Part 2 -- Popularizing the Framing Conventions: Eliza Haywood -- Debating Novel Forms: Haywood, Richardson, and Henry Fielding -- Letters and Secret Histories in Pride and Prejudice -- Retrospective: On Omissions, Misdirection, and the Practice of Romance -- Chapter 2 Letters and Empirical Evidence -- Introduction: Identity, Secret Histories, and Detection -- Detecting Occasional Selves: Mary Davys's The Reform'd Coquet -- Debating Empirical Evidence: Haywood and the Historians -- Circumstantial Evidence and Conjectural Histories: Charlotte Smith's Emmeline -- Circumstantial Evidence and the Letter-Clue: Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret -- Retrospective: On Laws of Evidence, Personal Testimony, and Particular Facts -- Chapter 3 Cultural Expectations and Encapsulating Letters -- Introduction: Judging the Future by the Past -- Conventional Expectations and Unseen Letters: Charlotte Lennox's Henrietta -- Expectations in Prospect and Retrospect: Frances Burney's Cecilia -- Reasonable Expectations: Maria Edgeworth's Belinda -- Wilkie Collins's Dead Letters and Anthony Trollope's Bet -- Retrospective: On the Contingent, Unexpected, and Unforeseen -- Chapter 4 Epistolary Peripeteiae -- Introduction: Pivotal Letters and Dilatory Lovers -- Jane Barker's Double Pivot: Love Intrigues
Beschreibung:	1 Online Ressource(296 pages)
ISBN:	9781009008532