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Title Writing the female voice : essays on epistolary literature / edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith.

Publication Info. Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1989]
©1989

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  809.6 W956W    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 296 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Women and the art of letter writing: A courtesan's voice: epistolary self-portaiture in Veronica Franco's Terze rime / Margaret F. Rosenthal. Male models of feminine epistolarity; or, how to write like a woman in seventeenth-century France / Katharine A. Jensen. Authority, authenticity, and the publication of letters by women / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- The female epistolary voice in the eighteenth century: Female resources / Patricia Meyer Spacks. Innovation and convention in Sophie La Roche's The story of Miss von Sternheim and Rosalia's letters / Sally Winkle. Narrative cross-dressing and the critique of authorship in the novels of Richardson / James Carson. Letters from the Harem: veiled figures of writing in Montesquieu's Lettres persanes / Suzanne Rodin Pucci. Fanny's fanny: epistolarity, eroticism, and the transsexual text / Julia Epstein. In search of a female voice: Les liaisons dangereuses / Susan K. Jackson. Graffigny's epistemology and the emergence of third-world ideology / Janet Gurkin Altman. Writing to the divine Marquis: epistolary strategies of Madame de Sade and Milli Rousset / Julie C. Hayes --
Gender and epistolarity in a modern key: Special delivery: twenty-first-century epistolarity in The handmaid's tale / Linda Kauffman. No body there: on the politics of interlocution / Alicia Borinsky. Authorship and authority: George Sand's letters to her mother / Kathryn Crecelius. "Trying to do without God": the revision of epistolary address in The color purple / Carolyn Williams.
Subject Letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Letters -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Added Author Goldsmith, Elizabeth C.
ISBN 1555530389 alkaline paper $32.50
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