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Epistolarity in the Eighteenth Century

A letter

Readings

You鈥檝e got mail! The trope of a bag of letters opened to the reader鈥檚 gaze is surprisingly common in eighteenth-century literature. This course looks at a selection of eighteenth-century letters, letter-writing manuals, famous newspaper correspondence, and fictions and dramas that depend upon letters to examine what makes epistolary form so fascinating. Texts will include works by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and others.

Assessment

  • Participation (20%);
  • seminar (30%);
  • letter assignment (20%);
  • term paper (30%).

Department of English, 成人大片 University

Watson Hall
49 Bader Lane
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

Telephone (613) 533-2153

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成人大片 is situated on traditional Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory.