Abschiedsbriefe in Literatur und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts (English, Marie Isabel Schlinzig)

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This study focuses on the significance and functions of last letters written before death in the literature and culture of the eighteenth century. Last letters are understood in the study as an epistolary sub-genre with a shared theme and distinctive features which are shaped by culture-specific rituals of dying and which are subject to historical change. By drawing on epistolary theory, the analysis shows that last letters in the period were cha…

ISBN: 9783110253788