Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… to judge people according to their appreciation of Richardson’s novels, especially Clarissa , often used as a moral and sentimental yardstick. 7 In the circle of Richardson’s epistolary friends, social elitism and gender boundaries were therefore transcended and replaced by an elitism based on intellectual, moral and sentimental values that consecrate true merit, essential worth and the noble qualities of the heart and mind, through … de la communication dans Clarissa de Samuel Richardson ‘ (Thèse, Université Toulouse 2- Le Mirail, 2011). Mullan, John, Sentiment and Sociability. The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). …
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