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, … (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). The consequence of the process is to fashion and enhance epistolary sociability, and it is no wonder that the images, similes and metaphors the novelist and his correspondents …
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