Letters of Mistress Henley (Texts & Translations) (MLA Texts and Translations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873527763 ISBN 13: 9780873527767

Publisher: Modern Language Association, 1994

Synopsis

The six letters composing this 1784 novel tell the story of a woman who has chosen a decent and affectionate man as her life's companiononly to discover that she cannot bear sharing his life.

About this title

Review:

"A work of startling modernity, which could become a curricular standard like 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' or The Awakening." --English Showalter, author of The Evolution of the French Novel

About the Author:

Philip Stewart's study of French narrative has led to the publication of Imitation and Illusion in the French Memoir-Novel, 1700-1750; Le Masque et la parole: le langage de l'amour au XVIIIe siecle; an edition of Prevost's Cleveland; and a study of literary illustrations entitled Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century. Professor Stewart is a former president of the American Association of Teachers of French and a member of the Editorial Board of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Language Association
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0873527763
• ISBN 13: 9780873527767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42