num_pages: 331
description: Kauffman looks at a neglected genre--the love letter written by literary heroines. Tracing the development of the genre from Ovid to the twentieth-century novel, she explores the important implications of these amatory discourses for an understanding of fictive representation in general.
language: English
title: Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions
titlecomplete: Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions
genres: Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Cornell University Press