Round 7: 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 (-5[1])still cut straight across my forehead.” (-5[1])That poem styled as one of these works is Lǐ Bái’s “The River Merchant’s Wife.” (-5[1])The story of Abelard and Héloïse was first preserved in these works. A namesake Enlightenment-era “republic” of scholars shared these works, (10[1])an infamous “open” example of which (10[1])was published by Émile Zola. (10[3])These works are used to frame epistolary novels. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])many poets have written the “love” type (10[1])of what correspondences? ■END■ (10[3])

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