The Resource Romantic correspondence : women, politics, and the fiction of letters, Mary A. Favret
Romantic correspondence : women, politics, and the fiction of letters, Mary A. Favret
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- Summary
- The literary importance of letters did not end with the demise of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. In the turbulent period, between 1789 and 1830, the letter was used as a vehicle for political rather than sentimental expression. Against a background of severe political censorship, seditious corresponding societies and the rise of the modern Post Office, letters as they were used by Romantic writers, especially women, became the vehicle for a distinctly political, often disruptive force. Mary Favret's study of Romantic correspondence reexamines traditional accounts of epistolary writing, and redefines the letter as a "feminine" genre. It also reconsiders a central concept of Romantic poetry in historicist, feminist and prosaic terms, by asking us to question the categories of gender and genre which determine our sense of Romantic literature. The book deals not only with fictional letters which circulated in the novels of Jane Austen or in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but also with political pamphlets, incendiary letters and spy letters available for public consumption. Moreover, Mary Favret argues that the travel letters of Mary Wollstonecraft and the foreign correspondence of Helen Maria Williams disturb any simple notion of epistolary fictions and the "woman of letters" by insisting on the democratizing power of correspondence. At the same time, she demonstrates how the history of correspondence promoted by the British Post Office deflects that democratizing power by channeling letter-writing into a story of national progress
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 268 pages
- Contents
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- History and the fiction of letters
- "Letters" or letters? Politics, interception and spy fiction
- Helen Maria Williams and the letters of history
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the business of letters
- Jane Austen and the look of letters
- The letters of "Frankenstein"
- Conclusion, or the death of the letter : fiction, the Post Office and "The English Mail Coach."
- Isbn
- 9780521410960
- Label
- Romantic correspondence : women, politics, and the fiction of letters
- Title
- Romantic correspondence
- Title remainder
- women, politics, and the fiction of letters
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary A. Favret
- Subject
-
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English letters -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- History
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Romanticism -- Great Britain
- Letter writing -- History
- Epistolary fiction, English -- History and criticism
- Women authors, English -- Correspondence -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Women authors, English -- Correspondence | History and criticism
- English letters -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Letters in literature
- Records and correspondence
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The literary importance of letters did not end with the demise of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. In the turbulent period, between 1789 and 1830, the letter was used as a vehicle for political rather than sentimental expression. Against a background of severe political censorship, seditious corresponding societies and the rise of the modern Post Office, letters as they were used by Romantic writers, especially women, became the vehicle for a distinctly political, often disruptive force. Mary Favret's study of Romantic correspondence reexamines traditional accounts of epistolary writing, and redefines the letter as a "feminine" genre. It also reconsiders a central concept of Romantic poetry in historicist, feminist and prosaic terms, by asking us to question the categories of gender and genre which determine our sense of Romantic literature. The book deals not only with fictional letters which circulated in the novels of Jane Austen or in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but also with political pamphlets, incendiary letters and spy letters available for public consumption. Moreover, Mary Favret argues that the travel letters of Mary Wollstonecraft and the foreign correspondence of Helen Maria Williams disturb any simple notion of epistolary fictions and the "woman of letters" by insisting on the democratizing power of correspondence. At the same time, she demonstrates how the history of correspondence promoted by the British Post Office deflects that democratizing power by channeling letter-writing into a story of national progress
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Favret, Mary A
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism
- Series volume
- 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English letters
- English prose literature
- Women authors, English
- Politics and literature
- Politics and literature
- Women and literature
- Women and literature
- Epistolary fiction, English
- Romanticism
- Letter writing
- Letters in literature
- English letters
- Women authors, English
- Label
- Romantic correspondence : women, politics, and the fiction of letters, Mary A. Favret
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- History and the fiction of letters -- "Letters" or letters? Politics, interception and spy fiction -- Helen Maria Williams and the letters of history -- Mary Wollstonecraft and the business of letters -- Jane Austen and the look of letters -- The letters of "Frankenstein" -- Conclusion, or the death of the letter : fiction, the Post Office and "The English Mail Coach."
- Control code
- 25369840
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 268 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521410960
- Lccn
- 92004491
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1501698
- Label
- Romantic correspondence : women, politics, and the fiction of letters, Mary A. Favret
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- History and the fiction of letters -- "Letters" or letters? Politics, interception and spy fiction -- Helen Maria Williams and the letters of history -- Mary Wollstonecraft and the business of letters -- Jane Austen and the look of letters -- The letters of "Frankenstein" -- Conclusion, or the death of the letter : fiction, the Post Office and "The English Mail Coach."
- Control code
- 25369840
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 268 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521410960
- Lccn
- 92004491
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1501698
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English letters -- History and criticism
- English letters -- Women authors | History and criticism
- English prose literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Epistolary fiction, English -- History and criticism
- History
- Letter writing -- History
- Letters in literature
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Records and correspondence
- Romanticism -- Great Britain
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women authors, English -- Correspondence -- History and criticism
- Women authors, English -- Correspondence | History and criticism
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