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100	1	0	_aRoudeau, Cécile _eauthor
245	0	0	_aLa lettre à l'épreuve de la non-correspondance dans les récits de Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
260			_c2007.
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520			_aLetters are not to be trusted in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s stories. They are late, eternally deferred, and, when, or if, at long last they finally reach their destination, they are seldom true to their words—as if fin-de-siècle New England had lost its faith in correspondence. With only expectations to live on, Freeman’s women characters spend their lives waiting for a letter that never comes, or keep receiving letters that fail to correspond either to themselves or to their supposed author. Nonetheless, Freeman’s Fidelias, Sallys and Eglantinas abide, filling the blank left by the lover’s departure, or mere absence, with their faithful endurance, spinning the yarn of their lives in spite of, or maybe because of, the breach of contract, or the lack of correspondence. This paper explores the gaping temporality which allows female characters to speculate on the interval granted by the letter’s “non-coming,” or the lack of coincidence between the letter and the body with which it corresponds. Capitalizing on the missing, deferred or inadequate letter, they make the most of the delay and embroider absence into a fiction of their own.
690			_aattente
690			_acorps
690			_acorrespondence
690			_aentre-temps
690			_afemme
690			_afiction
690			_aletter
690			_aspéculation
690			_abody
690			_acorrespondence
690			_afiction
690			_ainterval
690			_aletter
690			_aspeculation
690			_awaiting
690			_awoman
786	0		_nRevue française d’études américaines | 112 | 2 | 2007-10-12 | p. 32-51 | 0397-7870
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2007-2-page-32?lang=fr&redirect-ssocas=7080
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