epistolary novel
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Barth also challenged literary conventions in his 1979 epistolary novel “Letters,” in which characters from his first six novels wrote to each other, and he inserted himself as a character as well.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
Laclos' epistolary novel spins a web of decadent self-involvement and class warfare through the exchange of letters between the Marquise de Merteuil, a wealthy widow, and her former lover Vicomte de Valmont.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-winning epistolary novel, Celie’s Dickensian journey of suffering and redemption is enlivened by an exuberant, bluesy score by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
Indeed, it is generally agreed that Austen's most famous work, Pride and Prejudice, began as an epistolary novel called First Impressions, consisting exclusively of letters between the characters.
From Fox News ● Sep. 16, 2020
Moreover, it is not Richardson, the meticulous inventor of the epistolary novel, but the past-mistress of sensational romance who is credited with originating the English domestic novel.
From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie
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