Joe Bray lectures in Literary Stylistics at the University of Stirling, having previously held positions at the Universities of Strathclyde, Cambridge and Luton. He has published on Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen and is co-editor of Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page (Ashgate, 2000).

• 1. Introduction: Consciousness, The Novel and The Letter 2. Sex and Politics: The Epistolary Novel before 1740 3. Reserve and Memory: Richardson and the Experiencing Self 4. Sentiment and Sensibility: The Late Eighteenth-Century Letter 5. From First to Third: Austen and Epistolary Style 6. Postcript: The Case of Herzog

Joe Bray lectures in Literary Stylistics at the University of Stirling, having previously held positions at the Universities of Strathclyde, Cambridge and Luton. He has published on Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen and is co-editor of Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page (Ashgate, 2000).

• 1. Introduction: Consciousness, The Novel and The Letter 2. Sex and Politics: The Epistolary Novel before 1740 3. Reserve and Memory: Richardson and the Experiencing Self 4. Sentiment and Sensibility: The Late Eighteenth-Century Letter 5. From First to Third: Austen and Epistolary Style 6. Postcript: The Case of Herzog

Joe Bray lectures in Literary Stylistics at the University of Stirling, having previously held positions at the Universities of Strathclyde, Cambridge and Luton. He has published on Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen and is co-editor of Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page (Ashgate, 2000).

• 1. Introduction: Consciousness, The Novel and The Letter 2. Sex and Politics: The Epistolary Novel before 1740 3. Reserve and Memory: Richardson and the Experiencing Self 4. Sentiment and Sensibility: The Late Eighteenth-Century Letter 5. From First to Third: Austen and Epistolary Style 6. Postcript: The Case of Herzog