Romantic Correspondence

Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters

By: Mary A. Favret, James Chandler (Editor), Marilyn Butler (Editor)

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Paperback | 27 January 2005

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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 are used by Romantic writers, especially women, become 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. The book deals not only with letters which circulated in the novels of Austen or Mary Shelley, but also with political pamphlets, incendiary letters and spy letters available for public consumption.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Non-Fiction Prose

Preface: The Public Letter, or æLa Lettre PerfideÆ
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: the death of the letterûfiction, the Post Office and æThe English Mail CoachÆ
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