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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]

… Abstract This entry shows how Richardson, through his writing and reading practices, fashioned links with his readers and created a society of writers … special kind of sociability, relying on the qualities of the heart and mind. People > Art and Literature Keywords Samuel Richardson Writing and reading practices Letter Epistolary sociability Friendship Sentiment Heart and mind Although Samuel Richardson was a reserved, taciturn man who was ill at ease in society and preferred indirect means of communication – …

Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… in the debates of his time through his writing. His epistolary Les liaisons dangereuses , which was based on Richardson’s Clarissa , was his ‘unique book’. More radical than its English model, it called into question a whole … People > Art and Literature People > Association Keywords Revolutionary sociability libertinism Epistolary novel Richardson Social reform Born on 18 October 1741 in Amiens to a recently ennobled family, Pierre-Ambroise François … in English as Dangerous Liaisons or Dangerous Connections ) was indebted to Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse and Richardson’s Clarissa and simultaneously marked the pinnacle and decline of a genre that was inextricably linked to the …

English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]

… Based on intertextual connections and apparent dialogical relationships between texts written by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Eliza Haywood, the analysis will suggest a reading of the interactions between authors as … form, ulteriorly designated as the novel . Through interposed fictional works, Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding thus engaged in their own ‘battle of the books’, which proved victorious: although neither … and the 1740s – a period that witnessed the writing and publication of the works of Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, proclaimed, among others, as the founders of the eighteenth-century English novel. The …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… significant characteristics of the eighteenth century, especially in England. Writers and poets (such as Swift, Pope, Richardson) became the main public figures in the sharing of information, opinions and collective reflections. This stems … epistolary novel demonstrates: Pamela in fact became a model, not indeed for letters, but for novels written in letters. Richardson himself, with Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison , was not the only one to stay with the form once it was … significant characteristics of the eighteenth century, especially in England. Writers and poets (such as Swift, Pope, Richardson) became the main public figures in the sharing of information, opinions and collective reflections. This stems …

Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]

… in Love in Excess in 1719 and Fantomina’s Beauplaisir in 1725, to name a few) and prolonged two decades later with the Richardsonian antagonists Mr B, Lovelace and Sir Pollexfen. Though still a comedy staple on the stage, the figure was … in what is arguably one of the most famous incarnations of the rake: the character of Robert Lovelace from Samuel Richardson’s 1748 novel  Clarissa . The book continued Richardson’s didactic intent, already on display in his 1741  Familiar Letters , which offered templates for appropriate …