The Epistolary Novel

The Epistolary Novel Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Epistolary Fiction (Particularly the Novel) in France and in Italy
  • The Sixteenth Century: The First Epistolary Romances in Prose
  • Introduction to Laclos and the Epistolary Novel
  • Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (essay date 1996)
    • The Eighteenth Century Epistolary Body and the Public Sphere
• Criticism: Women And The Epistolary Novel
  • Introduction to Olinda's Adventures: Or the Amours of a Young Lady
  • Letter Fiction and the Search for Human Nature and Romantic Love and Sexual Fantasy in Epistolary Fiction
  • Writing Home: Evelina, the Epistolary Novel and the Paradox of Property
  • Introduction to The Reform'd Coquet: or Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and The Accomplish'd Rake, or a Modern Fine Gentleman
• Criticism: Principal Figures: Britain
  • Shamela
  • The Epistolary Format of Pamela and Humphry Clinker
  • Irony, Storytelling, and the Conflict of Interpretation in Clarissa
• Criticism: Principal Figures: France
  • La Nouvelle Héloïse and the Public of 1761
  • Introduction to Letters From the Marchioness de M*** to the Count de R***
  • The End of Epistolarity: ‘Letters from an American Farmer’
• Further Reading