Romantic Correspondence : Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters

Name: Romantic Correspondence
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521604284
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ISBN: 9780521604284

by Mary A. Favret

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

ISBN-10 0521604281

ISBN-13 9780521604284

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 27th, 2005

Print length 284 Pages

Weight 444 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 22.90 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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This study of correspondence in the Romantic period calls into question the common notion that letters are a particularly 'romantic', personal, and ultimately feminine form of writing.

The literary importance of letters did not end with the demise of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. In the turbulent period between 1789 and 1830, the letter was used as a vehicle for political rather than sentimental expression. Against a background of severe political censorship, seditious Corresponding Societies, and the rise of the modern Post Office, letters as they are used by Romantic writers, especially women, become the vehicle for a distinctly political, often disruptive force. Mary Favret's study of Romantic correspondence reexamines traditional accounts of epistolary writing, and redefines the letter as a 'feminine' genre. The book deals not only with letters which circulated in the novels of Austen or Mary Shelley, but also with political pamphlets, incendiary letters and spy letters available for public consumption.

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