Explores how influential Spanish and Spanish American writers used letters in their literary works to formulate distinctive visions of modernity.

This lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read and interpret eighteenth-century letters.

Voltaire's correspondence has been described as his 'greatest masterpiece' – but if it is, it is also his least studied. One of the most prodigious correspond

Through the eighteen essays of this book, the reader becomes the beholder of a challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making,” from its early stages in the

During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a wide spectrum of society, from m