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Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters
Epistolary Bodies Gender and Genre in the EighteenthCentury Republic of Letters Author:Elizabeth Cook Proceeding from the perspective of Jürgen Habermas?s public sphere theory, this book studies the popular 18th-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of Montesquieu, Richardson, Riccoboni, and Crèvecoeur.