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 101
... write letters since they are a marginal activity among the much more important house- hold duties prescribed for women ... writes finely , and is Madame de Sévigné to her corre spondents . I hope to be one of them . But she has not , I ...
... write letters since they are a marginal activity among the much more important house- hold duties prescribed for women ... writes finely , and is Madame de Sévigné to her corre spondents . I hope to be one of them . But she has not , I ...
Page 107
... writes to him minute accounts of every moment spent away from him , describes her impressions , joys , and disappoint- ments as she promises in her first letter from London : " I shall write to you every evening all that passes in the ...
... writes to him minute accounts of every moment spent away from him , describes her impressions , joys , and disappoint- ments as she promises in her first letter from London : " I shall write to you every evening all that passes in the ...
Page 109
... writes letters only to her guardian and legal protector , in other words , to a father figure , and to Maria , her friend and confidante . Both Maria's mother and Villars know and approve of this correspondence . There is only one ...
... writes letters only to her guardian and legal protector , in other words , to a father figure , and to Maria , her friend and confidante . Both Maria's mother and Villars know and approve of this correspondence . There is only one ...
Contents
Contents | 9 |
Female Letters in Conduct Material | 21 |
Letters as a Means of Liberation for Female | 52 |
Copyright | |
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