Pressestimmen
"Thomas O. Beebee's Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850 is a vital contribution to literary history and to studies of genre and narrative...Epistolary Fiction in Europe is an impressive achievement...I especially admired his ability to synthesize and contextualize literary history, feminist theory, and critical theory in a compelling, erudite, and indispensible study." Comparative Literature
"Beebee's is a very dense and informative study, which also offers some real gems of literary interpretation, presented almost casually along the way...an important resource for anyone intersted in the cultural and literary history of letters." L'Esprit Créateur
"In Epistolary Fictin in Europe, 1500-1850, Tomas O. Beebee offers a fascinating and theoretically sophisticated analysis..." Studies in English Literature
"Indispenable...The research that has gone into this book is remarkable." The Comparatist
Über das Produkt
Thomas O. Beebee offers a history of letter fiction as a major phenomenon across Europe from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. He discusses letter-writing manuals, self-referential aspects of the letter, news and travel reporting, the relationship between letters and gender, and historically specific letter-writing by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors including Austen, Balzac and Dostoevsky.
