Essays in the form of Postings to Listservs on Epistolary Literature

On this page, I have separated out those essays in the form of postings on epistolarity which I contributed to a year-long conversation on the Net on a literary listserv where a small group of people discussed Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. I have also edited essay-postings on epistolarity which I contributed to other conversations on other listservs on Jane Austen's novels and Anthony Trollope's fiction and non-fiction. The texts investigated below include Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey, novels from Trollope's Barchester series, Trollope's short stories, and his An Eye for an Eye, The American Senator, and Ayala's Angel.

• A Real-Time Reading of Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel, Clarissa

• From A Conversation On Sense and Sensibility:

  Epistolarity in Sense and Sensibility (I, Chapters 22-23): Easy Transposition into Journal-Letter by Elinor

  Epistolarity in Sense and Sensibility (II, Chapters 6-8 [28-30]): Deep Reverie: A Chapter of Letters

  Epistolarity in Sense and Sensibility (II, Chapters 9-11 [31-33]): A Letter from Colonel Brandon to Mrs Dashwood

  Epistolarity in Sense and Sensibility (II, Chapters 12-14 [34-36]): Journal Letters by Elinor

  Epistolarity in Sense and Sensibility (II, Chapters 12-15 [34-37]): Elinor in Continuation

  Epistolarity in Sense and Sensibility (III, Chapters 1-3 (37-39): Gumshoes: A Sequence of Letters; Summary of Letters from 2 Drafts of Elinor and Marianne
  

• From A Conversation On Mansfield Park:

  Epistolarity in Mansfield Park (III, Chapters 5-16): Mary's & Edmund's letters to Fanny
  

  Epistolarity in Mansfield Park: Mary's & Edmund's letters to Fanny (III, 516))
  

  Epistolarity in Mansfield Park (III, 9-14): Lady Bertram's Letters to Fanny
  

  Epistolarity & Stream of Consciousness in Mansfield Park (III, 13): From Elinor to Emma to Fanny
  

• From A Conversation On Northanger Abbey:

  Epistolarity in Northanger Abbey: The Non-Use, Scattered Quality and Moving Use of Letters
  

• From Conversations On the Barchester Chronicles (Barchester Towers, Dr Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and The Last Chronicle of Barsest), The American Senator and Ayala's Angel, and Trollope's Short Stories (specifically "The Editor's Tales")

  Epistolarity in Barchester Towers (written 1856): Our First Long Letter Plus Three More & An Article in the Jupiter
  

  Epistolarity in Dr Thorne (written 1857-58): Miss Dunstable as an Ironic Festival Figure; Her Epistolary Exchanges
  

  Epistolarity in Dr Thorne: An Inset Epistolary Novel, De Courcy Precepts and De Courcy Practice: Lady Amelia De Courcy and Miss Augusta Gresham
  

  Epistolarity in Dr Thorne: Epistolarity used to create Emotional Suspense: Mary Thorne's Letter to Frank Threatened with Extinction and Then Delayed by Lady Arabella, his Mother; The Best Moment in the Book Led into by Mary's Delayed Letter: Plangency
  

  Epistolarity in Framley Parsonage (written 1859-60): : "How to Write a Love Letter"

  Epistolarity in The Small House at Allington (written 1862-63): : Boarding House Letters"

  Epistolarity in The Last Chronicle of Barset (written 1866): The Importance of Paper: Anonymous and Other Kinds of Letters in the stories of Lily and Johnny Eames and the Rev. Mr. Crawley

  Epistolarity in An Eye for an Eye (written 1870): Turning the Novel Inward through Letters; Dramatic Scenes or How to Skim a Trollope Novel

  Epistolarity in The American Senator (1875) and Ayala's Angel (written 1878): Numbered Letters

  Epistolarity in "Josephine de Montmorenci, or the Adventures of Miss Polly Puffle" (written after 1867, from An Editor's Tales): A Vast Epistolary Novel and the Uses of Letter-Writing for a Woman Writer: Polly on the Net

  Epistolarity in "The Spotted Dog" (written after 1867, from An Editor's Tales: The Job Interview Letter