Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form

Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize correspondences, both real and fictional, reflect the preoccupations of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her readings of the Lettres portugaises, Mme Autor: Elizabeth Jane MacArthur Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Rok wydania: 2014 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 308 Wymiary: 22.9 x 15.2 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9780691605029