Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-century Familiar Letter - Hardcover

Lowenthal, Cynthia J.

9780820315454: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-century Familiar Letter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820315451 ISBN 13: 9780820315454

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1994

Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) produced correspondence spanning more than 50 years. This book examines the genres she employed in her correspondence, from the "courtship" letters she sent to Edward Wortley Montagu and Alexander Pope, to literary criticism on the nature of the 18th-century novel.

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Review:

"[A] sensitive, ambitious, and elegantly written monograph."--"Studies in English Literature"

"The book's tone is poised and reflective, its critical approach tactful and balanced. Primarily a work of synthesis, it lucidly refines our knowledge of Lady Mary's epistolary achievement."--"Review of English Studies"

"As a critical biography, which is perhaps how it is best approached, Lowenthal's book makes an interesting contribution to work on Montagu."--Clara Tuite, "AUMLA"

[A] sensitive, ambitious, and elegantly written monograph.--"Studies in English Literature"

The book's tone is poised and reflective, its critical approach tactful and balanced. Primarily a work of synthesis, it lucidly refines our knowledge of Lady Mary's epistolary achievement.--"Review of English Studies"

As a critical biography, which is perhaps how it is best approached, Lowenthal's book makes an interesting contribution to work on Montagu.--Clara Tuite ""AUMLA" "

About the Author:

Cynthia Lowenthal is dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston. She is the author of "Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage."

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