Thomas O. Beebee examines epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon
in Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. His
study is the first to consider epistolary fiction as a pan-European
form of importance to all major European languages. It demonstrates
that such fiction can be found everywhere, not just in texts aimed
specifically at aesthetic consumption. Beebee begins with the
premise that the letter was a Protean form which crystallized
social relationships in a variety of ways, and that fictional uses
of the letter appropriated the status and power the letter had
already acquired from its established functions within other
discursive practices. He discusses the letter-writing manual,
self-referential aspects of the letter, news and travel reporting,
the relationship between letters and gender, and historically
specific use of epistolarity by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
authors including Austen, Balzac and Dostoevsky. The book also
offers a bibliography of major European epistolary fiction to 1850.
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