Epistolary Histories
Subtitle: Letters, Fiction, Culture
Contributors: Amanda Gilroy (Editor); W. M. Verhoeven (Editor)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780813919737
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Epistolary fiction, English; English letters; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Sociology; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History and criticism; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; American letters; Epistolary fiction, American
First sentence: During the period between the publication of Clarissa in 1747-48 and the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851, the novel came into its own.1