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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.

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A note to the reader; Introduction: imprinting the body: Lady Bradshaigh's Clarissa; 1. The eighteenth-century epistolary body and the public sphere; 2. Writing the republic of letters: the lettres persanes and the citizen-critic; 3. 'My father's house': body language and authority in Clarissa; 4. Going public: the letter and the contract in Fanni Butlerd; 5. The end of epistolarity: letters from an American farmer; Postscript. Post-enlightenment letters; Notes; Works cited; Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/1996
      ISBN13: 9780804725385, 978-0804725385
      ISBN10: 0804725381

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      A note to the reader; Introduction: imprinting the body: Lady Bradshaigh's Clarissa; 1. The eighteenth-century epistolary body and the public sphere; 2. Writing the republic of letters: the lettres persanes and the citizen-critic; 3. 'My father's house': body language and authority in Clarissa; 4. Going public: the letter and the contract in Fanni Butlerd; 5. The end of epistolarity: letters from an American farmer; Postscript. Post-enlightenment letters; Notes; Works cited; Index.

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