Epistolarity: approaches to a form

(print) 235 p. ; 24 cmAcknowledgments vii -- Introduction 3 -- Epistolary Mediation 13 -- Of Confidence and Confidants 47 -- The Weight of the Reader 87 -- Epistolary Discourse 117 -- The Dynamics of Epistolary Closure 143 -- The Epistolary Mosaic 167 -- Conclusion : The Parameters and Paradoxes of Epistolarity 185 -- Selected Bibliography 217 -- Index 22

Espace public, espace privé : la politique de la publication de lettres sous l'ancien régime

Altman Janet Gurkin. Espace public, espace privé : la politique de la publication de lettres sous l'ancien régime. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 70, fasc. 3, 1992. Langues et littératures modernes — Moderne taal- en letterkunde. pp. 607-623

The Epistolary Politics of Virginia Woolf & Ta-Nehisi Coates

In this essay, Erica Gene Delsandro explores the “layered rhythms” shared by Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas (1938) and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me (2015). Both authors, separated by gender, race, and history, employ the epistolary form for political ends, troubling the distinction between private experience and public discourse. Born out of an interdisciplinary positionality, the pairing of Woolf and Coates stands as an example of how feminist reading practices can productively reinvigorate modernist studies particularly and literary studies generally