Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 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 … one of her poems before a group of guests. […] The movement from the first half to the second half of Richardson’s novel is the movement from the privacy of the prison and the tête-à-tête to the world of society and the salon, the …
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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