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...Dougald Macmillan Told in Letters: Epistolary Fiction Before Richardson . By Day Robert Adams . Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press , 1966 . Pp. [ viii ], 281 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 121 The Poetry of Meditation (1954...

...Harry Wilson Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Epistolary Autobiography: The Letters of Oscar Wilde Harry Wilson To read the late letters of Oscar Wilde1 those written after his release from prison in 1897 is both painful and compelling. Apart from the dramatic struggle for self...

...Mimi Khúc This epistolary essay chronicles the making of Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health (2016, 2019), an interdisciplinary, hybrid book arts project that is an antiracist and disability justice rethinking of mental health. Open in Emergency works to decolonize...

... to imagine his own life as an innocent gay Farce more Divert­ ing still than Regular. Four years later, Pope inaugurated a correspon­ dence with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, then beginning her travels to Turkey. He adopted for his letters Voiture s elegant tone, enacting half of an epistolary romance...

... the Austen family for many years. The Juvenilia short tales, sketches, fictional letters, scraps of epistolary novels, bits of plays, some highly imaginative English history show among other things that as a girl Jane Austen (1775-1817) was already well-read. By the time she was in her teens her literary...

..., a handsome average. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO JOSEPH N. RIDDEL Told in Letters: Epistolary Fiction Before Richardson. By Robert Adams Day. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1966. Pp. [viii], 281. $7.50. Helen Sard Hughes contributed to The Manly Anniversary Studies in 1923 a short...

..., but central also, Sitter believes, in his literary methods. Hume shares with the great epistolary novelists a concern with the moment, with the implications of writing in time. And he shares with William Law, subject of the second chapter, a turn from reason to models of sentiment, attraction, of unseen...

... the delight any reader will have in reading them. If all the letters together do not read quite like the sparkling epistolary novel Byron s correspondence tends to form, Hobhouse s life, times, and mind have their own fascination even beyond the enviable, ever-present sense of his being one of the most...

...” of the intruding reader underscores how the epistolary form capitalizes on “race-specific, race-free language.” The effect is inclusive, allowing readers of all races to feel in on things. Morrison may operate in West’s “self-imposed marginality,” but she allows all of us to read her private...

...: it is pleasant to read. Cast in the form of an epistolary essay, Duff Cooper s little book deals with the lost years in the poet s life those years before Shakespeare emerged in London as a successful actor-playwright. Mr. Duff Cooper believes that Shakespeare spent these years as a non­ commissioned officer...

... the recent Shakespeare books one stands out for an unusual reason: it is pleasant to read. Cast in the form of an epistolary essay, Duff Cooper s little book deals with the lost years in the poet s life those years before Shakespeare emerged in London as a successful actor-playwright. Mr. Duff Cooper...

..., a playwright and critic as well as an English professor at the University of Maryland, envisioned this book as something akin to an epistolary novel and a reliable source-book for the scholar as well as an engaging story for the layman. His labors have obviously been arduous over a good many years...

... his famous Red Indian epistolary manner in favor of a nearly awed restraint (Joyce is the only correspondent whom he ever addressed as Chere Maitre, even in jest). At the same time, Ulysses forced Pound into breaking with what he called a passeist approach to composition and history. By 1923 he...

..., Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, and Archibald MacLeish were varyingly valued comrades and fellows. Sometimes they appeared admirable, sometimes despicable, but they always seemed to be at hand for the freest kind of epistolary exchange until, at least in the case of some...

... us to the scaffold—to the threshold of extinction that is a final silence. It’s implausible, you will say— even with a condemned man whom we know to be literate and thoughtful. It is a bit like the convention that has epistolary heroines such as Pamela and Clarissa, in Samuel Richardson’s...

.... Sir James himself left this record in his epistolary journal under date of September 4th: On my return I found the whole fashionable world oc­ cupied with Madame de Stael, whom [sic] you know was the authoress of Corinne, and the most celebrated woman of this or, perhaps, of any age. After...

... (Dumond 1997). The rebels themselves tell a strikingly different tale in the epistolary accounts that they left behind. “Indio”-identifying leaders maintained that the war was not one of racial antagonism; and if it was being conceptualized as such, it was because “the whites began it” (Rugeley 2001...

..., as these letters demonstrate, notable for their Presbyterian piety and articulateness. The editor, a playwright and critic as well as an English professor at the University of Maryland, envisioned this book as something akin to an epistolary novel and a reliable source-book for the scholar as well...

... of a comedy, a half-told tale, and three letters. The Scraps and A Collection of Letters are of interest, less as burlesque, for that is better in other parts of the volume, than as a revelation of the young author s literary background. These .letters reflect acquaintance with epistolary novels their titles...

..., virtually the only sympathetic ones in the book, are sacrificed to parental vanity an injustice against which the author protests vigor­ ously. In Peints par eux-memes ( Their Own Portraits much more than in Flirt, we face the crude realities of wordly life. This novel in epistolary form, which has been...