Round 8: 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.” That poem styled as one of these works is Lǐ (10[1])Bái’s “The River Merchant’s Wife.” The story of Abelard and Héloïse was first preserved in these works. A namesake Enlightenment-era “republic” of scholars shared these works, an infamous “open” example of which was published by Émile Zola. (10[2])These works are used to frame epistolary novels. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1]-5[1])many poets have written the “love” type of what correspondences? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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