Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing

ISBN-13: 9781107579385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 283 str.

Louise Curran

Opis

Examines Samuel Richardson's letters and novels, and explores the interconnection between fiction and correspondence in eighteenth-century literature.

Recenzje

'Louise Curran's Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing is a detailed and perceptive examination of Richardson's extensive private correspondence. In this engaging study, such correspondence is invested with its long overdue critical significance … Astute and persuasive throughout, Curran's book is a striking addition to Richardson scholarship and to studies of 'the great age of letter-writing' more generally … Such an uncompromising dedication to these obscure texts has not been seen perhaps in Richardson scholarship since Thomas Keymer's seminal Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (1992); placing Curran's book, quite deservedly, in erudite company.' Rachel Sulich, The BARS Review

Spis treści

Introduction: undesigning scribbler; 1. Forming a style: Pamela, plainness and the 'true sublime'; 2. Lady Bradshaigh's Clarissa and the author as correspondent; 3. Trifling scribes: women's letters and patchwork writing; 4. The Grandison years: men, morals, and manliness; 5. Editing letters in an age of index-learning; Conclusion.