FREN 5600 - 18th C Epistolary Novel
3 Credit Hours
The course will focus on the rise of the epistolary novel as a literary genre and its influence on the development of fiction. The research conducted in the seminar will be an attempt to determine and to assess some elements for a theory of the epistolary novel in 18th century France. This will be done through the study of letter manuals and novels such as those of Madame Riccoboni or Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos. Novels will be studied in the intellectual context of the time.

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