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The other Enlightenment: Excess and...

Chen, Huang-hua.

The other Enlightenment: Excess and the epistolary novel in the long eighteenth century.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The other Enlightenment: Excess and the epistolary novel in the long eighteenth century.
Author:	Chen, Huang-hua.
Description:	214 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-02, Section: A, page: 0568.
Notes:	Adviser: Scott Juengel.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3395475
ISBN:	9781109636086

The other Enlightenment: Excess and the epistolary novel in the long eighteenth century.
Chen, Huang-hua.

The other Enlightenment: Excess and the epistolary novel in the long eighteenth century. - 214 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-02, Section: A, page: 0568.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2009.

This is a dissertation about eighteenth-century epistolary novels and their somewhat "dangerous liaisons" with the Enlightenment. It seeks to explain why their popularity is no mere accident and why letter-novels in many ways facilitate and reinforce the Enlightenment ethos. My study of the relationship between the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century epistolary novels, however, takes a slightly different turn: while epistolary novels promote a sense of order and sequence, bounding the writing self within the confines of epistolary verisimilitude, they often display signs of excess that run counter to the premise of the Enlightenment and therefore produce in readers a sense of disorientation or disproportion that refracts the illuminating effects of the Enlightenment. I argue that the "peak of the epistolary novel" in the eighteenth-century should not merely be seen as part of the rise of the novel; it in fact responds to a larger cultural suspicion toward Enlightenment discourses, such as rational subjectivity and empirical claims of authorship, authenticity, identity, and materiality. The eighteenth-century epistolary novel thus calls our attention to a burgeoning awareness of excess as a fundamental part of modernity.

ISBN: 9781109636086Subjects--Topical Terms:

178247
Literature, Comparative.

The other Enlightenment: Excess and the epistolary novel in the long eighteenth century.
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