Charles Gildon (1665–1724) is known today as the ultimate hack writer of Restoration England. Nonetheless, his two fiction collections in the ‘rifled mailbag’ genre — The Post‐Boy Rob'd of His Mail ...(1692) and The Post‐Man Robb'd of His Mail (1719) — contain insights concerning the structures and practices of information gathering in early modern Europe. This essay places these fictions by Gildon in their historical and literary contexts, including his repurposing of the Italian Il Corriero svaligiato by Ferrante Pallavicino, the relation to John Dunton's Athenian Mercury, and the use of addresses and occupations of letters to describe the geopolitics of Restoration London and its surround.
Die Relation zwischen empfindsamem Briefroman und Affekt, Gefühl oder Emotion ist theoretisch betont, jedoch selten manifest geworden. Im Übergang zur modernen Episteme zeigt sich innerhalb dieser ...Gattung eine im hohen Maße ästhetisch ausdifferenzierte Sprache der Emotionen. Intuitiv geht dies aus den exemplarischen Briefromanen, 'Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse' (1761), 'Die Leiden des jungen Werther' (1774; 1787) sowie 'Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis' (1817) hervor. Wie wird dies aber textanalytisch unter Berücksichtigung historischer und gegenwärtiger Emotionstheorien im Zuge des 'emotional turn' plausibel? Der Schlüssel liegt in der Revision des europäischen Emotionskonzepts als eines Zusammenspiels zwischen subjektiver Bewusstwerdung und Reflexion. Folglich lässt sich in der ästhetischen Praxis des Briefeschreibens eine Kulturtechnik entdecken, die abhängig vom zugrundeliegenden paradigmatischen Emotionskonzept eine reflexive Bewusstwerdung oder eine Verhüllung von Emotionen zulässt.
This article takes Sir Philip Sidney's 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia' (1593) as a touchstone of the English tradition, arguing that early modern English romance authors redirect the Ovidian ...epistolary form to articulate a sympathy that ultimately facilitates satisfaction rather than loss. Ovid's 'Heroides' conceives of compassion as hinging on loss and separation. Whereas Ovid's heroines write to complain to the lovers who have abandoned or betrayed them, early modern prose romance adapts the epistolary discourse of complaint to support romantic union. Sidney's central female figures appeal to compassion that authorizes their writing, but in romance the female writer's story does not end in suffering. Romance is hopeful: it rewards compassion and demonstrates its practical, positive ends.
The Severed word Brownlee, Marina Scordilis; Brownlee, Marina Scordilis
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In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic ...discourse. She shows how Ovid's Heroides explore the discourse of epistolarity in a way that exerted a lasting effect on Italian, French, and Spanish works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially on the fifteenth-century Spanish novela sentimental, or "sentimental romance." Presenting this proto-novelistic form as a highly original rewriting of Ovid, Brownlee demonstrates that its language model interrogates rather than affirms the linguistic referentiality implied by romance. Whereas the ambiguity of the sign had been articulated in fourteenth-century Spain (most notably by the Libro de buen amor), it is the fifteenth-century novela sentimental that fully grasps the existentially, novelistically dire consequences of this ambiguity. And in the process of deconstructing the referentiality that underlies romance, the novela sentimental reveals itself to be a discursively essential step in the evolution of the modern novel.
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While scholars have traditionally taken Revelation’s “letters to the seven churches” (Rev 2–3) as documentation for the experiences of the Christ-movement in those cities, this article argues that ...the letters amount to a fictional device—that the Apocalypse appropriates epistolary forms in response to the increasing authority of early Pauline collections among the late first-century Asia Minor Christ-movements. With its divine epistolary authority and heavenly sevenfold “collection,” the Apocalypse attempts to exceed and denigrate Pauline authority in the Christ-movement, and it elevates a Jewish Christ-devotion based in priestly apocalyptic traditions. In the end, we can see John of Patmos both as a competitor to the Pauline tradition and as a witness to the earliest circulation of Pauline collections.
Dans Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d'Ancien Régime, Isabelle Tremblay analyse les modes de présence de l'interlocuteur absent à l'aide de l'étude des indices explicites et implicites permettant ...d'en déchiffrer le discours et même d'en esquisser un portrait. Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d'Ancien Régime demonstrates that the apparent one-sided structure of monophonic epistolary novels is in fact a uniquely crafted dialogical structure founded on both explicit and implicit references to the seemingly silent and absent writer.
