Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… him to promote sociability through the creation of a society of writers and readers. For one thing, in his Familiar Letters 1 , he gave his readers practical advice on how to become a sociable people and behave as such, what company to … might enjoy the pleasures of conversation. For another thing, the interplay takes place between real and fictional letters as Richardson’s three novels are – partly in the case of Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded , and wholly in the case of … 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 lent to others the letters that had been sent to them …
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