Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… , 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 … be loquacious upon paper […] is the only way a solitary man can talk’ ( Correspondence , III, 80). As a result, oral and epistolary sociability appear to be complementary notions, as is also revealed by the fact that epistolary exchanges are …
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