… 1660 and 1699 were merchants and tradesmen, and they were often, in the words of Michael Hunter, ‘exceptional in their class, having courtly connections, lodgings at Gresham College, or the like’ (Hunter, Science and Society , 7). 9 …
… microcosm that contrasts with the complexity and depth of the world represented in Clarissa . Inheriting the French classical tradition, which spans from Madame de La Fayette to Crébillon, he confined a small number of characters to a …
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