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| | Early American Novel: Brief Background Notes |
 | | Sentimental novel or novel of sensibility: This form reflects the sentimentalism of the eighteenth century as reflected in sentimental comedy and domestic tragedy. | | | All three are epistolary novels, novels told through letters written by one or more of the characters. | | | Brown's novel was based on the story of Perez Morton's seduction of his wife's sister, Fanny Apthorp, an act at once both incestuous and adulterous according to eighteenth-century law. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/earamnov.htm
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| | Romancing an Oft-Neglected Stone: The Pastoral Epistles and The Epistolary Novel - Richard I. Pervo |
| | As an epistolary novel Chion appears to require readers who will be able to fill in the final page—better, readers who will know that the hero was able to satisfy his heartfelt desire, to accomplish his task and take its consequences with courage, dignity, and content. | | | This hypothesis cannot, however, define a genre, not simply because it is an hypothesis, but also because it proceeds from an understanding of the epistolary novel as a literary possibility revealed in modern times. | | | The composition of an epistolary novel presents authors with a number of difficult challenges and raises the question of why one would select this particular form. |
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http://www.atheistalliance.org/jhc/articles/PervoPE.htm
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| | Twentieth Century Literature: 20th century AD |
| | Previous flowerings of epistolary literature - in first century B.C. Rome and in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and France - are also connected with a positive change in the status of women, and with a sense of the validity of the writer's own culture in relation to the rest of the world. | | | In those emerging in the second half of the twentieth century, however, as in other types of modern novels by women, the women are concerned with much more than their love lives. | | | While the voices in epistolary literature often seem to be angry revolutionary voices, the revolution has always occurred before the form appears in literature. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n3_v41/ai_18143940
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| | Epistolary novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One argument for using the epistolary form is that it can add greater realism and verisimilitude to the story, chiefly because it mimics the workings of real life. | | | Lewis used the epistolary form for The Screwtape Letters (1942), and considered writing a companion novel from an angel's point of view -- though he never did so. | | | The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his first novel Pamela (1740). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary_novel
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| | The Color Purple: The Epistolary Novel |
| | The definition of the epistolary is "Novel told through letters written by one or more of the characters." The advantage is that it presents an intimate view of the character's thoughts without interferance from the author and that it conveys the shape of events to come with dramatic immediacy. | | | Usually though, Epistolaries were written from man to man and not woman to woman. | | | Because of this event the book is written in Epistolary form. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9089/colorpurple-epistolary.html
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| | For the first part of the novel, the reader enters Celie's narrative through her words, assuming that there will be no response from the God to which she writes. | | | Pa's voice at the beginning of the novel suggests that Celie's only alternative to speech is the written word to God. | | | Pa taints Celie's attempt to make a difference through writing letters to God when he tells her at the beginning of the novel, "You better not tell nobody but God. |
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http://athena.english.vt.edu/~nquesinb/Nq/ad-colorpurple.htm
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| | Epistolary Novel |
| | Samuel Richardson developed the idea for Pamela, an epistolary novel that is considered to be the first mature novel written in English, while writing a letter manual. | | | The eighteenth-century public was familiar with the letter form because of its use to report philosophical and scientific findings and tales of travel. | | | In addition, this style became one of the earliest venues for women writers due to the content and nature of the epistolary novel. |
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http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mrt25/novel.html
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| | Oliver Scheiding |
| | [1] In his novel, Brown follows the formal tradition of the English epistolary novel of seduction, a genre which provides the reader with positive models for imitation and negative ones from which the reader can learn what constitutes right and wrong behavior. | | | According to the advertisements of Brown’s first novel, the book was apparently “intended to enforce attention to female education, and to represent the fatal consequences of Seduction” (1789, quoted in Walser 1982/83, 65). | | | However, contrary to a reading of the novel in terms of a failed attempt to imitate established genres, I would like to suggest that Brown’s failure signals the cultural potential of the early American novel: The novel’s explicit violation of readerly expectations creates a rather ‘open text’. |
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http://www.mith2.umd.edu/summit/Proceedings/Scheiding.htm
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| | epistolary novel -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Originating with Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), the story of a servant girl's victorious struggle against her master's attempts to seduce her, it was one of the earliest forms of novel to be developed and remained one of the most popular up to the 19th century. | | | The English satirical novelist Tobias Smollett is best known for his picaresque novels relating episodes in the lives of rogue heroes. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9032818
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.02.42 |
| | This edition of the epistolary novel based on the life of the tyrannicide Chion of Heraclea, with facing translation, introduction and notes, is the first since Düring's (hereafter D.) 1951 English edition with commentary. | | | Doubtless every writer of good, Atticising Greek in the first centuries CE underwent the kind of rhetorical education implied by this suggestion, and yet by no means all Greek literature of the period turns out to be about such declamatory or meletic themes, still less to treat them in the same ways. | | | Far better to see this allusion as evidence that this book of letters was consciously following its most famous predecessor in the Greek epistolary tradition, and one to which it is naturally connected through the character of Plato, to whom Chion writes the concluding Ep. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-02-42.html
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| | The Beginnings of a Female Narrative Voice |
| | While the novel remains the dominant literary form of the twentieth century, mock epic is at best an element used occasionally in comedy. | | | The English novel was a product of several differing literary traditions, among them the French romance, the Spanish picaresque tale and novella, and such earlier prose models in English as John Lyly's Euphues (1579), Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1590) and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1684). | | | Although Defoe and his female contemporaries were looked down upon by the intellectual establishment represented by Pope and Swift, later developments in literary history have shown that it was they who would define the literature of a new age, and not the so-called Augustans. |
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http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/voice.htm
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| | McKillop |
| | Perhaps the most common criticism of Richardson is that he had an imperfect knowledge of his own principles and themes, that he was in part duped by convention, entrapped by his underlying interest in sex, and constantly in danger of being swamped by his own verbosity. | | | Richardson, as an experienced printer, knew every step in the making of a book, and saw the completed and published novel as the result of a long and intricate process; he extended "writing to the moment" to include every step in the history of a published correspondence. | | | The writing of the letters is only the beginning; they are copied, sent, received, shown about, discussed, answered, even perhaps hidden, intercepted, stolen, altered, or forged. |
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http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/DEBCLASS/MCKILL.HTM
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| | novel - definition of novel by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | There were romances such as Havelok the Dane and Morte d'Arthur, later still tales such as those of Defoe, and the modern novel is the outcome of such tales and romances. | | | novel - a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels" | | | roman fleuve - a French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/novel
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| | German Dramatized Novels |
| | Moreover, with the dramatized novel the poet liberates himself from the dogmatic precepts of the arbiters of taste. | | | On the one hand, it is possible that the fragmented quality of the dramatized novel structurally represented the estrangement and alienation that manifested itself as German culture and society moved haltingly toward modernity. | | | For all the inadequacy of the dramatized novel, the critic does not dispute the potential of the genre for poetic legitimacy. |
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http://www.mercer.edu/fll/Faculty/German/archipelago.htm
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.06.20 |
| | The broad range is welcome (though the omission of specific discussion of middle and new comedy is a gap, particularly in the accounts of the Roman Greek texts). | | | 280-98), with the epistolary characters themselves as captivated as the implied reader by the lure of playing the other (dreaming as they do of wealth, power, status). | | | Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Ancient Epistolary Fictions: the Letter in Greek Literature. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-06-20.html
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| | Epistolary Literature: A Working Bibliography |
| | Black, Frank J. The Epistolary Novel in the Late 18th Century: A Descriptive and Bibliographical Study, Studies in Literature and Philology, No. 2. | | | This derives from her dissertation: "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter." Ph. | | | British Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of British Diaries Written beween 1442 and 1942 and British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published or Written Before 1951 Both thick books which contain hundreds of entries were published by the University of California Press, in 1950 and 1955 respectively. |
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http://www.jimandellen.org/trollope/epistolary.biblio.html
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| | Panel 5 2002 |
| | Given that the epistolary novel is “the perfect medium to camouflage the existence and presence of the novelist,” Laclos will not be easy to find. | | | Indeed if we are to believe Milan Kundera, the novel has accompanied modern man since the inception of modernity; he writes: “The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. | | | Voegelin’s statement in his lecture-essay on the German university that “the great works of literature are direct confrontations with the estrangement [from reality] – they discover it as a phenomenon, they are expressions of suffering from it, they work through the problem meditatively in order to penetrate to the freedom of the spirit. |
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http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/voegelin/EVS/panel52002.htm
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| | Epistolary - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | EPISTOLARY BODIES Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century...R. Nelthorpe. | | | Enlightenment, Epistolary Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Epistolary Fiction, French--History And Criticism, Literary Form, Literature, Comparative--English And French, Literature, Comparative--French And English, Literature, Modern--18th Century--History And Criticism, Richardson, Samuel--1689-1761--Clarissa, Sex Role In Literature | | | A lovely epistolary evening by Laura Outerbridge Nobody read Shakespeares sonnets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning or anything beginning with... |
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http://www.questia.com/SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=Epistolary
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| | You may recall that another of Mackenzie’s novels, The Man of Feeling, was salvaged for publication from use as a curate’s gunwadding. | | | I think that Savillon’s connoisseurship of these sentimental vignettes is related to the deadening of his own sensitivities—the predicted pruning of his sensibility by participation in the slave system. | | | The text of Julia de Roubigné was likewise imperiled, about to be sold to a grocer as fishwrap, when a sharp-eyed collector recognized that the letters were in a “style much above the ordinary manuscripts of a grocery-shop” (4). |
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http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/woomer.htm
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| | Daniel Traister's Home Page--WOMEN WRITERS 1770-1830 |
| | Ester Hath Hang'd Haman: or An Ansvvere to a Lewd Pamphlet, Entituled, The Arraignment | | | Countess d'Alva: being neither novel nor romance, but | | | The Recess, or A Tale of Other Times. |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/~traister/pascoe2.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,Douglas Parmee,David ... |
| | As noted, the novel is epistulary, which is to say each chapter is actually a letter written from one character to another. | | | Laclos' story of evil and depravity, starring a pair of jaded aristocrats so satanic we wonder if they have a human bone in their bodies, is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, novels of the 18th century. | | | I had seen the great film Dangerous Liaison's, so I was drawn to reading the original sourse material, I was at first taken aback by its being an epistolary novel, but I got used to that in short order and really enjoyed the book. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192838679?v=glance
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| | Glossary of Literary Terms |
| | Scholars of the mystery story found it convenient to use the term for work that shared the same attitude
Typical themes in noir work include obsessive love (or hate, or both), amnesia, illness, betrayal, and man-as-the-plaything of fate" (Source : DeAndrea, 403). | | | Fan Mail by Ronald Munson illustrates a contemporary twist on the genre by employing several forms of written communication: memos, faxes, telephone messages, e-mail, reports, newspaper clippings. | | | “The term romance has had special meanings as a kind of fiction since the early years of the novel
In common usage, it refers to works with extravagant characters, remote and exotic places, highly exciting and heroic events, passionate love, or mysterious or supernatural experiences. |
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http://www.notesinthemargin.org/glossary.html
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| | A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility |
| | But equally essential to the construction of the novel's calendar and its ironic parallels are its many other flashbacks which are scattered throughout the novel, and which are all much shorter than Brandon's and Willoughby's tales, and have thus escaped attention. | | | The only other of Austen's novels to cover more than one and one half-years, Mansfield Park, chronicles a mere ten (the novel begins when Fanny Price is nine and ends when she is nearly nineteen). | | | Like Southam and others who have wanted to discuss what the earlier version of the book may have been like in order to shed light on the present version, she probably felt herself unable to figure out who wrote to whom. |
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http://www.jimandellen.org/austen/s&s.calendar.html
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| | Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice -- Notes on Random Topics |
| | when he says (during the walk to Beechen Cliff) "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid". | | | books by Nick Bantock are modern examples of the "epistolary form".) Jane Austen experimented with this form in her early Juvenilia (notably | | | You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing." |
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| | Writing her rights: Fictions of sociability in the eighteenth-century French epistolary novel (Charles de Secondat, ... |
| | I argue that these texts can be read as fictions of sociability insofar as they stage contemporary social relations and articulate a theoretical discourse on the laws that govern human society. | | | In particular these novels set up a confrontation between two historic conceptions of human relations. | | | As it analyzes the ways in which these two different discourses were gendered and juxtapose in the Enlightenment epistolary novel, this dissertation traces changing representations of human sociability over the course of the eighteenth century. |
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http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3043932
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| | The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Call Me E-Mail: The Novel Unfolds Digitally |
| | The plot of "Intimacies" is based on "Pamela," the 18th-century work by Samuel Richardson that is one of Western literature's first epistolary novels. | | | Wittig created "Friday's Big Meeting" (www.robwit.net/fbm), a story set in a virtual chatroom, as well as "Blue Company 2002" (www.robwit.net/bluecompany2002), arguably the first epistolary e-mail narrative to be written and published for paying e-mail subscribers in real time. | | | But then, the earnest new "novel" that it fuels, "Intimacies," by Eric Brown, is drawing notice more for its style than for its content. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/15/technology/circuits/15nove.html?ex=1397361600&en=67ebbb525002e913&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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| | Epistolary |
| | An epistolary novel is one that is "written in the form of a series of letters exchanged among the characters of the story with extract? | | | This genre exhibits the quality in which there are two separate audiences to the letter: a character of the novel and the reader. | | | The reader is required to become his own narrator since the plot is not being directly told by the author. |
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http://www.ups.edu/faculty/velez/Span_301/html/unit6/epistolar.htm
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| | Style: Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture - Book Review |
| | Her "Writing Women and the Making of the Modern Middle Class" reveals how themes and structures inherent in American colonial captivity narratives are translated into the power of Richardson's epistolary heroines to establish standards of social and moral purity. | | | Janet Gurkin Altman's seminal formalist study of the epistolary genre, Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form, appeared in 1982, and Linda S. Kauffman followed with her generic studies of the letter in Discourses of Desire (1986) and Special Delivery (1992). | | | In a sense, Epistolary Histories continues the dialogic tradition of works like Linda Kauffman's anthology Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism, in which the essays explicitly address each other, most famously the exchange between Jane Tompkins and Gerald MacLean (indeed, his response is in the form of a letter). |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_3_35/ai_97074165
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| | veers toward Walker the writer, her influences, womanism, the address to God, or the 1985 Steven Spielberg film adaptation of the novel. | | | As a racialized text, the novel is often problematically placed outside the traditional bounds of southern literature. | | | Wall astutely links the fragmented lettered form with bodies fragmented by abuse and violation. |
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http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/epistolarity5.html
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| | Humanities 3: Literature |
| | It helps to know what might have been the poet's design, but essential for the piece is not the final intention, but what happens in it. | | | intimacy: spontaneous subjective self-presentation (not possible in a first-person novel) | | | Frank G. Black (1940) has counted over 800 epistolary novels written between 1740 and 1840, not counting epistolary fiction in verse nor in periodicals (the main bulk was produced between 1760 and 1810). |
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http://www.nyu.edu/classes/reichert/resources/lit.html
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| | Epistolary Novel, The - More Information |
| | This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. | | | The epistolary novel is a form, which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. | | | This study argues that, like many later novelists, Austen is indebted to the psychological tension and inner conflict, which is characteristic of the epistolary novel. |
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http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/moreinfo.asp?etailerid=19&bookId=536902042
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| | ipedia.com: The Color Purple Article |
| | The Color Purple is an epistolary novel: that is, the book is written in the form of letters. | | | The central character is Celie, a young woman who is sexually abused by her father (who, she later discovers, is her stepfather) and is forced to marry a widower with several children, who is physically abusive towards her. | | | Spoiler warning: Plot, ending, or solution details follow. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/the_color_purple.html
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| | FREN273 - Special Delivery: The French Epistolary Novel |
| | In this class we will read epistolary novels that vary wi dely in both form and content: from Madame de Graffigny's critique of European societ;y (Lettres d'une peruvienne), to Mme de Charriere's praise of female independence (Lettres de Mistriss Henley), to Lacios' portrait of aristocratic libertinage (Les liai sons dangereuses). | | | It comes as no surprise then that the eighteenth century was the golden age of the ROMAN EPISTOLAIRE, the novel composed entirely of letters. | | | We will also read two examples of the epistolary novel's stylistic counterpart, the roman-memoire. |
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http://www.wesleyan.edu/wesmaps/course9900/fren273f.htm
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| | There is the letter's intended recipient (destinataire), the occasional interceptor, the invented publisher and/or editor who organize(s) the collected correspondence, and the extrafictional reader who reads the collection in its entirety, including the disclaiming or condemning prefaces which precede it. | | | The role of the reader is central to the epistolary genre because the letters anticipate a reader witin the novel's framework. | | | And yet it is in the novel of letters that the reader, the fictional reader, most clearly creates the text. |
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http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/date/v1-v19/v8n3.meltzer.html
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| | The book discusses the letter-writing manual, self-referential aspects of letter, news and travels reporting, the relationship between letters and gender, and use of the epistolary by eighteenth-and nineteenth-century authors. | | | The “Select bibliography of European epistolary fiction to 1850” is chronological listing of primary texts that serves as a notion of the printing history of epistolary fiction. | | | Thomas O. Beebee, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Pennsylvania State University, explores the epistolary novel as a pan-European phenomenon. |
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http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mrt25/vocab.html
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| | Essay 2, due May 11, 5 pages double-spaced How does Mary Shelley use the epistolary form to reveal gender characteristics that become important in the novel as a whole. | | | Essay 3, May 26, 5 pages double-spaced Using two novels we have read (The Sylph, Emma, or the Unfortunate Attachment, Evelina, or Austen’s Emma), examine the relationship between social manners and social class. | | | We will examine how the novel changed from its epistolary form (a novel of letters), into a mixed (Shelley), straight (Emma), and multiple narrative form (Bronte). |
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http://condor.depaul.edu/~jgross/English_442.doc
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Epistolary Novel |
| | The success of Walter Scott with his historical novel Waverley in 1813, and the publication of Jane Austen's novels after 1811, -- novels which were first written in the epistolary form -- signals the invention of a sophisticated, impersonal mode of novelistic narration which will thereafter dominate fictional production. |
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| | Welcome to DEN! |
| | Sign up for notification to buy your own DEN-ware for your own novel. | | | It's a novel you read on your PC. | | | Though the novel looks like real email and web pages, they are actually simulations which are totally self-contained on your computer. |
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http://www.greatamericannovel.com/den/what.php
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| | DEN: The Digital Epistolary Novel MetaFilter |
| | This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments | | | January 12, 2004 8:27 PM EBookWeb: DEN is for digital epistolary novel. |
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| | Arcadia's Journal |
| | i refuse to re-enact a henry james novel | | | I'm thinking perhaps Clarissa, because when else would I have the patience to read it, with The Mysteries of Udolpho as a backup (ditto). | | | Now I just need to pick the appropriate large novel to keep me occupied on my travels (since I'll have just read my usual choice, Middlemarch, for orals). |
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| | Collaboration Cafe: The Digital Epistolary Novel |
| | The digital epistolary novel (DEN), a new genre of fiction, reveals its story line through a series of simulated emails, web pages and instant messages. | | | Through these simulated communications, the events of the story unfurl. | | | Upon downloading a DEN, a reader advances through the story by clicking through chains of emails between main characters. |
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http://www.collaborationcafe.com/2003/12/the_digital_epi.html
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| | SAGReiss - Poetry, Poésie & Prose |
| | literature, poem, epistolary novel, journal, web log, blog, hypertext fiction, metatext, dialog, polyphony, Englis |
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| | If you'd sent me novels, I would have been grateful; but I would also have known that you expected to hear nothing much more about them, besides a hearty "thank you." Herr Hegel sends a quite different message: that you agree to conduct an impassioned dispute by the kind offices of the Mail-coach. | | | I am restored in my every faculty and cell, like a watered plant. | | | I do not think I have ever received mail that pleased me half so much as your improving reading. |
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