Epistolary bodies: gender and genre in the eighteenth-century republic of letters

A note to the reader Introduction: imprinting the body: Lady Bradshaigh's Clarissa 1. The eighteenth-century epistolary body and the public sphere 2. Writing the republic of letters: the lettres persanes and the citizen-critic 3. 'My father's house': body language and authority in Clarissa 4. Going public: the letter and the contract in Fanni Butlerd 5. The end of epistolarity: letters from an American farmer Postscript. Post-enlightenment letters Notes Works cited Index.