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Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions
Discourses of Desire Gender Genre and Epistolary Fictions Author: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.