books.google.nl - Kauffman looks at a neglected genre--the love letter written by literary heroines. Tracing the development of the genre from Ovid to the twentieth-century novel, she explores the important implications of these amatory discourses for an understanding of fictive representation in general....http://books.google.nl/books/about/Discourses_of_Desire.html?hl=nl&id=mPM6VlzJtjcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDiscourses of Desire