TY - BOOK ID - 77870247 TI - Epistolary responses : the letter in twentieth-century American fiction and criticism PY - 1997 SN - 0817388397 0585098077 9780585098074 0817308369 9780817308360 PB - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - Letters in literature. KW - Criticism KW - Epistolary fiction, American KW - American fiction KW - American epistolary fiction KW - Letters as a theme in literature KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - United States KW - Letters in literature KW - Epistolary fiction [American ] KW - Smith, Lee KW - Barth, John KW - Walker, Alice KW - Updike, John KW - Webster, Jean KW - Sinclair, Upton Beall KW - Castillo, Ana UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870247 AB - Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective. While most scholarly work to date has focused on 17th- and 18th-century manifestations of this genre, Bower's study concentrates on epistolary fiction by contemporary American writers published between 1912 and 1988. The novels discussed, all featuring women letter writers, include: Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, John Barth's LETTERS, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, John Updike's S., Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs, Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela ER -