Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… case of Clarissa; Or, the 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 … from single reader to multiple readers or listeners, and an expansion promoting sociability and the development of a social network. 3 Letters create a vital link between people and sometimes also are the first link in a chain of … 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 …
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