Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. CHAPTER ONE. The Genesis of Epistolary Narrative in the Seventeenth Century 36
6. CHAPTER TWO. Plotting a Metonymical Life Story: The Correspondence of Madame du Deffand and Horace Walpole 117
7. CHAPTER THREE. The Open Dynamic of Narrative: Metaphor and Metonymy in Rousseau's Julie 186
8. Closing 271
9. Bibliography 277
10. Index 291