Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-214) and index.
Contents:
Reading and the creation of the (Protestant) private spirit -- Authoring the private self: reading in seventeenth-century conversion narratives -- "Extasies in letters": reading personal letters in print -- Margaret Cavendish and the virtues of publication -- Discovery, pornography, and the novel: Aphra Behn's Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister.
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