附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.
Preface: Dear Reader; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Epistolary Fiction: Space to Respond; 3. Fair and Tender Ladies: Letters as a Response to Absence, Presence, and Property; 4. ""Help! Love me! I grow old!"": The Central Role of Germaine Pitt in John Barth's LETTERS; 5. Restoration and In-gathering-The Color Purple; 6. John Updike's S.: Gender Play; 7. Delettering: Responses to Agency in Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs; 8. Relettering: Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela Responds to Samuel Richardson's Pamela; 9. Remapping the Territory: Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters
An ""Epistolary Fix"": Dear Reader, Once Again10. Epistolary Responses to the Critical Act; Notes; Works Cited; Index
摘要:Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective. While most scholarly work to date has focused on 17th- and 18th-century manifestations of this genre, Bower's study concentrates on epistolary fiction by contemporary American writers published between 1912 and 1988. The novels discussed, all featuring women letter writers, include: Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, John Barth's LETTERS, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, John Updike's S., Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs, Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela.
