Censored Sentiments: Letters and Censorship in Epistolary Novels and Conduct MaterialThis book offers a new perspective on women as letter writers and on the eighteenth-century increase in, and subsequent decline of, epistolary fiction. In order to better understand the role epistolary fiction played in English, French, Italian, and to a lesser extent, American society, it is necessary to read such fiction in the context of conduct books with their theories of what women should be and their reflections on literature. Such a reading takes into account not only letter writers and their addressees, but also the censors who read, intercepted, suppressed, criticized, corrected, forged, altered, falsified, misdirected, censored, and rewrote female letters in an effort to achieve a perfect specimen of female epistolary writing. |
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Page 58
... female letters , always defined against the " you " of the addressee , changes into an egoistical “ I ” which attracts all attention to itself . This can be seen , for example , in Pe- trarch's Le familiari . The priority of art over ...
... female letters , always defined against the " you " of the addressee , changes into an egoistical “ I ” which attracts all attention to itself . This can be seen , for example , in Pe- trarch's Le familiari . The priority of art over ...
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... female sexuality in check . She links Richardson's preoccupation with the control of women to the fear of uncontrollable female sexuality , always present although rarely explicit in eighteenth- century fiction : they [ women ] were ...
... female sexuality in check . She links Richardson's preoccupation with the control of women to the fear of uncontrollable female sexuality , always present although rarely explicit in eighteenth- century fiction : they [ women ] were ...
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... female letter writer . Could there be a female episto- lary voice after Richardson and if so , how would it have to adjust to fit the Richardsonian image of female correspondence ? 1 In his study on the epistolary fiction in the late ...
... female letter writer . Could there be a female episto- lary voice after Richardson and if so , how would it have to adjust to fit the Richardsonian image of female correspondence ? 1 In his study on the epistolary fiction in the late ...
Contents
Contents | 9 |
Female Letters in Conduct Material | 21 |
Letters as a Means of Liberation for Female | 52 |
Copyright | |
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