{"product_id":"romantic-correspondence-women-politics-and-the-fiction-of-letters-paperback-9780521604284","title":"Romantic Correspondence; Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters (Paperback) 9780521604284","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRomantic Correspondence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen, Politics and the Fiction of Letters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study of correspondence in the Romantic period calls into question the common notion that letters are a particularly 'romantic', personal, and ultimately feminine form of writing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMary A. Favret (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521604284, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 27 January 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages, 6 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.429 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface: The Public Letter, or 'La Lettre Perfide'\u003cbr\u003e 1. History and the fiction of letters\u003cbr\u003e 2. Letters or letters\u003cbr\u003e politics, interception and spy fiction\u003cbr\u003e 3. Helen Maria Williams and the letters of history\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mary Wollstonecraft and the business of letters\u003cbr\u003e 5. Jane Austen and the look of letters\u003cbr\u003e 6. The letters of Frankenstein\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: the death of the letter–fiction, the Post Office and 'The English Mail Coach'\u003cbr\u003e List of works cited.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004186448152,"sku":"9780521604284","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521604284i_31dbf22d-3343-4955-b7a9-b3c62ea6dba7.jpg?v=1691370407","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/romantic-correspondence-women-politics-and-the-fiction-of-letters-paperback-9780521604284","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}