Letters - Couverture rigide

Montagu, Mary Wortley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679417478 ISBN 13 : 9780679417477

Editeur : Everyman's Library, 1992

Synopsis

 

Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Clare Brant is lecturer in English at King's College, London. She is the editor (with Diane Purkiss) of Women, Texts and Histories and the author of 'Le Roman par Lettre' in Les Lettres Europeenes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Everyman's Library
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679417478
• ISBN 13: 9780679417477
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 616
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible