Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book
studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary
narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres
persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni's
Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur's Letters
from an American Farmer (1782).The author situates epistolary
narratives in the contexts of eighteenth-century print culture: the
rise of new models of readership and the newly influential role of
the author; the model of contract derived from liberal political
theory; and the techniques and aesthetics of mechanical
reproduction. Epistolary authors used the genre to formulate a
range of responses to a cultural anxiety about private energies and
appetites, particularly those of women, as well as to legitimate
their own authorial practices. Just as the social contract
increasingly came to be seen as the organising instrument of
public, civic relations in this period, the author argues that the
epistolary novel serves to socialise and regulate the private
subject as a citizen of the Republic of Letters.
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