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Samuel Richardson and the art of letter-writing
- Title
- Samuel Richardson and the art of letter-writing / Louise Curran.
- Author
- Curran, Louise
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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- Description
- xv, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This fascinating study examines Samuel Richardson's letters as important works of authorial self-fashioning. It analyses the development of his epistolary style; the links between his own letter-writing practice and that of his fictional protagonists; how his correspondence is highly conscious of the spectrum of publicity; and how he constructed his letter collections to form an epistolary archive for posterity. Looking backwards to earlier epistolary traditions, and forwards, to the emergence of the lives-in-letters mode of biography, the book places Richardson's correspondence in a historical continuum. It explores how the eighteenth century witnesses a transition, from a period in which an author would rarely preserve personal papers to a society in which the personal lives of writers become privileged as markers of authenticity in the expanded print market. It argues that Richardson's letters are shaped by this shifting relationship between correspondence and publicity in the mid-eighteenth century"--
- Subjects
- English letters > 18th century > History and criticism
- Autobiography > Social aspects
- Letter writing > England > History > 18th century
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 > Correspondence
- Authors, English > 18th century > Correspondence
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 > Criticism and interpretation
- Letter writing > Social aspects > England
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 > Friends and associates
- Note
- Based on the author's Ph D. thesis, University College London, 2011.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4452
- ISBN
- 9781107131514
- 1107131510
- LCCN
- 2015041802
- OCLC
- 918879364
- Author
- Curran, Louise, author.
- Title
- Samuel Richardson and the art of letter-writing / Louise Curran.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4452