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Kendall McClellan VIRTUOUS CITIZENS: COUNTERPUBLICS AND SOCIOPOLITICAL AGENCY IN TRANSATLANTIC LITERATURE (U of Alabama P, 2021) 182 pp. Reviewed by Ashley Reed on 2022-05-22 American Literature |
This book joins recent critical attempts to expand definitions of citizenship beyond those bounded solely by the franchise and to show how politically marginalized people increasingly entered into a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century public sphere that was dominated by upper-class men's values and voices. Click here to read the full review. |
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| | | | | Eve Tavor Bannet THE LETTERS IN THE STORY: NARRATIVE-EPISTOLARY FICTION FROM APHRA BEHN TO THE VICTORIANS (Cambridge, 2022) xviii + 276 Reviewed by Laura Rotunno on 2022-03-19 Epistolary Fiction |
Eve Tavor Bannet established her foothold in epistolary scholarship with Empire of Letters (2005), which argued that letter manuals taught 18th-century novel readers how to grasp the epistolary structure--letter literacy or "letteracy"--of fiction. Click here to read the full review. |
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