...Sarah Haggarty Duke University Press 2010 R “The Ceremonial of Letter for Letter”: William Cowper and the Tempo of Epistolary Exchange Sarah Haggarty Newcastle University...

...Eve Tavor Bannet Review Essay Studies in British and American Epistolary Culture Eve Tavor Bannet University of Oklahoma Temma Berg. The Lives and Letters...

.... 438 . Vol. 5 : Pp. 375 . $795 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay The Epistolary Canon of the “Man of Mercury” Ashley Marshall University of Nevada, Reno The Unpublished Letters...

... The association between letters and balloons can be read in parallel. Most simply, aeronauts took letters aloft, either for airborne dispersal or land- based delivery on arrival, demonstrating how epistolary communica- tion joined up with balloons. Letters stood in for experiment, metonymi- cally...

..., linearity, and authentic authorship, even if the collection is complete. We need to acknowledge that letters “between the same two correspondents, and in sequence of dates, are discontinuous, multidirectional, fragmented.” 6 In this article, I will reflect on the ephemeral quality of epistolary...

... and revela- tory possibilities afforded by the epistolary form, characteristics that made it a particularly useful mode for the secret-­history genre. The Secret History of  Whitehall emerged as a revisionist history of the seventeenth century that seemed also to invite further revisions...

... cryptically “The Nun’s Love-Letter15 Hughes’ comment on the genuineness of the letters of Abelard and Heloise attests to contem- porary tastes for authenticity; and such claims were already a common trope of early epistolary fiction. The success of the Lettres portugaises,for instance, lay in large part...

... of the particular lens through which it examines prose fiction. Thus, Toni Bowers s chapter ( Epistolary Fiction ) takes us on a grand tour 1 3 2 Eighteenth-Century Life that begins with Ovid s Heroides and Heloise s letters to Abelard, which in turn lead to the Lettres portugaises (1669, English translation 1678...

... in the eigh- teenth century, but rather “ambiguous, manipulative, and opportunistic.” 5 In this article, I consider the ways in which “Love- Letters” conforms to Todd’s reading of Restoration epistolary discourse, and the ways that it exploits both Aphra Behn and readerly expectations. To do this, I...

... began to receive attention, organized then around two larger concerns: fi rst, the shift in epistolary styles from seventeenth-century French models to the more conversational style of a Walpole in the next century; and second, what William Henry Irving, in The Providence of Wit in the English...

... entitled “Edit- ing the Letters of Letter Writers” before the English Institute at Columbia University. In it, he challenged the epistolary pieties of his day, especially our tendency to “monumentalize” editions of letters. Halsband noted that although Gordon Haight’s editorial work on the seven...

.... The second part of Weinbrot’s collection focuses on “Johnson the Writer.” The essays in this section, by Thomas Keymer, Jack Lynch, and David Nun- nery, challenge misconceptions about Johnson’s poetry, epistolary correspon- dence, and Lives of the Poets. Keymer persuasively shows that Johnson’s poetry...

..., he began to collect his letters and by 1753 had arranged them into “Volumes of Epistolary Corresponden- Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2011  doi 10.1215/00982601-2010-027 Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press...

... was not as celebrated as his contemporaries Equi- ano, Phillis Wheatley, or Ottobah Cugoano, like those counterparts, he was an “early Black Atlantic exemplar of epistolary art, rhetorical skill, and verbal self-­ fashioning” (2). Quaque’s letters demonstrate, however, that these skills rarely translated...

..., in chapter 3, reads Walter Scott's novel in letters, Redgauntlet (1824), as a “reflection on the continuum between advocacy and authoritarian control of those who cannot speak for themselves.” Wright argues that Scott revives the epistolary mode, which had grown unfashionable by the 1820s, to suggest...

... life, but they are certainly calculated, as with opera, to exploit the varied registers of the singing voice. As Seward her- self says, “The ensuing epistolary poems contain a description rather of pas- sions than of incidents.” 4 Why not extend the discussion of Louisa to include developments...

... Richardson’s corre- spondence. As well as creating the numerous fictional letters that make up the nineteen volumes of his three epistolary novels — Pamela (in two parts, 1 7 4 0   –  4 1 ) , Clarissa ( 1 7 4 7    –  4 8 ) , a n d Sir Charles Grandison ( 1 7 5 3   –   5 4 )  —  R i c h - ardson...

... Food for Thought 1 4 1 is startling, and EE provides a multitude of examples. What is new is not this awarenesss, but rather the epistolary exchanges between patients and their doctors, voluminous in part because Tissot lived in Switzerland rather than Paris. There is also, as elsewhere...

... the technical abilities of the epistolary novel. Ann Jessie Van Sant has pro- posed that Richardson required a contemporary and distinctly sentimen- tal reader, since it is “engagement of the passions on which strong moral eff ect depends.”17 But since the epistolary novel evokes sentimental feeling...

... and closeness with his corre- spondents.8 Within the letters, Swift uses a variety of additional epistolary conceits to transcend the temporal and geographical distance from his cor- respondents. One of these is the concept of the letter as conversation, of its words as speech. As numerous theorists...