Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions

by Linda S. Kauffman

Kauffman looks at a neglected genre--the love letter written by literary heroines. Tracing the development of the genre from Ovid to the twentieth-century novel, she explores the important implications of these amatory discourses for an understanding of fictive representation in general.

Genres: Literary Criticism

331 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986