Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven ed ...

Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven ed Epistolary Histories: alphabetic characters Fiction, Culture. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2000 256 pp ISBN 0-81391973-8 $1850

Epistolary Histories consists of eight essays and replys and a full introduction on the editors. The essays are form into groupsed into three sections: "Epistolarity and Femininity," "Culture of Letters" and "New Epistolary Directions." After each essay, single in kind of the contributors responds to it, not in such a manner much to criticize as to expand concerning the essay itself. This format adds substantially to the