Combining literary and historical analysis, this book offers the first study of largely female-authored novels that used embedded letters and third-person narrative to explore reading and misreading, knowledge and ignorance, communication and credulity, challenging empiricism on its own ground in plots centred on mysteries of identity.
Combining literary and historical analysis, this book offers the first study of largely female-authored novels that used embedded letters and third-person narrative to explore reading and misreading, knowledge and ignorance, communication and credulity, challenging empiricism on its own ground in plots centred on mysteries of identity.
Eve Tavor Bannet is George Lynn Cross Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. Her monographs include Empire of Letters (Cambridge, 2005), Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading (Cambridge, 2011), Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading (Cambridge, 2017) and The Domestic Revolution (2000).
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Preface: 'To the reader' Introduction: The letters in the story 1. Framing narratives and the hermeneutics of suspicion 2. Letters and empirical evidence 3. Cultural expectations and encapsulating letters 4. Epistolary Peripeteia 5. Hermeneutics of perspective.
Preface: 'To the reader' Introduction: The letters in the story 1. Framing narratives and the hermeneutics of suspicion 2. Letters and empirical evidence 3. Cultural expectations and encapsulating letters 4. Epistolary Peripeteia 5. Hermeneutics of perspective.
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