… when it manages to integrate features typical of orality such as direct speech, so that the letter takes the form of a dialogue, promotes relationships founded on depth and reflection, as well as friendship based on authenticity, or, in …
… anonymous) production but also a social predisposition that indicates a willingness to engage in a creative and critical dialogue with one’s contemporaries. The literary interactions are here constrained to four emblematic figures of the … he a prolific playwright) 13 but, also, whom he cannot do without, since his writing and success are intrinsic to the dialogue he establishes with his predecessors. Haywood’s response to Richardson’s novel marks her comeback to literature … we may question whether the new series of battles was beneficial to the development of the new form. The critical dialogue between Richardson and Fielding continued through textual allusions: Richardson’s attack upon Fielding in The …
… Despite the witty repartee of Austen’s dialogues, the novels move away from conversation as the principal paradigm governing British sociability and suggest a …