Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… London, NPG 161, circa 1747. Abstract This entry shows how Richardson, through his writing and reading practices, fashioned links with his readers and created a society of writers and readers based on esteem, admiration and friendship, … History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison – epistolary novels. 2 A network of sociability is fashioned by the very acts of sending and receiving letters, especially as during the eighteenth century people often … of the Heart, 1600-1750 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). The consequence of the process is to fashion and enhance epistolary sociability, and it is no wonder that the images, similes and metaphors the novelist and …
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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