… believes she can save the libertine Valmont, allows herself to be seduced by him and dies as a result. The seductive virtue portrayed by Richardson is transformed into a fascination with evil, because the two libertines are the heroes of …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
… affect and connection. 9 Some of the most popular epistolary novels of the time, from Richardson ’s Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa (1748) to Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778), apart from displaying the action and …