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The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle
Bill Overton
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Description for The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles. It advances a new model for defining the form, demonstrates the form's importance in the period, and pays attention to non-canonical epistles by women and labouring-class writers.
This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles. It advances a new model for defining the form, demonstrates the form's importance in the period, and pays attention to non-canonical epistles by women and labouring-class writers.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
299
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403941701
SKU
V9781403941701
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About Bill Overton
BILL OVERTON is Professor of Literary Studies at Loughborough University, UK. His most recent books are The Novel of Female Adultery: Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction 1830-1900 (1996), Fictions of Female Adultery: Theories and Circumtexts 1684-1890 (2002) and A Letter to My Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the Barbados Gazette, 1731-1737 (2001).
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