Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… didactic intent, already on display in his 1741 Familiar Letters , which offered templates for appropriate written correspondence between intimate friends and relatives. But it is with fiction that Richardson honed in on his … it meant to be a man, and a man of high standing, was being reassessed. 6 . The epistolary format, with the parallel correspondences of both characters and Lovelace’s practice of intercepting letters, does add a layer to the conflict … whose archaic and predatory dimension captivates as much as it repulses. 7 . See in particular: Samuel Richardson, ‘Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin’, in Peter Sabor (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence …
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