Last Letters

Product Description This collection of essays is devoted to last letters : letters sent or not to sever a relationship, to mark the end of a phase in one s life, or letters written by people about to be executed or commit suicide just before their deaths. Conversely, some of the letters analysed are fictional, and still other forms of texts, such as poems, are considered ultimate messages by the authors of the articles. By focussing on various forms of last letters, the contributors aim to define the influence of the epistolary context on endings and to provide an original approach to closure. From the Author Tilda Maria Forselius has written the chapter "When authors say goodbye to readers: Last letters in The Swedish Argus and Letter exchange, two Swedish eighteenth-century essay papers", pp. 10-24, About the Author Sylvie CRINQUAND is Professor of English Literature at Dijon University. She is currently working on letter-writing and its relationship with literary creation. She is the author of Lettres et poemes de John Keats: portrait de l'artiste and has also edited several collections of essays on life writing.