Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… 1747-1748); The History of Sir Charles Grandison (London: S. Richardson, 1754). 3 . The same move from private to public (and publication) takes place in Pamela, as is analysed by Janet Gurkin Altman: ‘If, in the first half, B is Pamela’s … Lady Davers, then Lady Davers’s friends read her letters; ultimately the letters are circulated among an even wider public. This ‘publication‘ of Pamela’s story is consonant with B’s general efforts to make a spectacle of Pamela in other …
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