Special Delivery: Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction

by Linda S. Kauffman

Book Overview

Though letter writing is almost a lost art, twentieth-century writers have mimed the epistolary mode as a means of reevaluating the theme of love. In Special Delivery, Linda S. Kauffman places the narrative treatment of love in historical context, showing how politics, economics, and commodity culture have shaped the meaning of desire.

Kauffman first considers male writers whose works, testing the boundaries of genre and gender, imitate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226426807
• ISBN13: 9780226426808
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"