Round 10: Tossup 12

A proto-feminist work of this type was written after a critique of its author was made under the name Sister Filotea. In a poem that Ezra Pound framed as one of these works, the speaker reminisces on “While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead.” (-5[1])That poem styled as one of these works (10[1]-5[1])is Lǐ Bái’s “The River Merchant’s (-5[1])Wife.” The story of Abelard and Héloïse was first preserved in these works. (10[1])A namesake Enlightenment-era “republic” of scholars (10[1])shared these works, an infamous “open” (10[1])example of which was published by Émile Zola. (10[1])These (10[1])works are used to frame epistolary novels. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[2])many poets have written the “love” type of what correspondences? ■END■ (10[2])

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