Research Catalog

Title

Samuel Richardson : correspondence primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750-1754) / edited by Betty A. Schellenberg.

Author

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

Schellenberg, Betty A.

Description

xlvii, 288 pages : illustration; 24 cm

Summary

• "Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was a highly regarded printer and influential novelist when he produced his final work of fiction, The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Like his other novels, it was written in epistolary form, reflecting his lifelong interest in letter writing and the letter as a genre. Covering the period 1750-1754, many of these fully annotated letters are published from manuscript for the first time, or have been restored to their complete original form. Recording Richardson's relationships with leading cultural figures including Samuel Johnson, Colley Cibber and Elizabeth Carter, the volume reveals his support for other authors while struggling to complete his own 'story of a Good Man'. This publishing saga also incorporates Richardson's responses to the Irish piracy of his novel, and his exchanges with anonymous fans, including those who attacked the novel's tolerance for Catholicism and those who pleaded for a sequel"--
• "British authors of the eighteenth century - the classic period of the familiar letter as a genre - whose correspondence is not available in a standard scholarly edition. Some of the most ambitious undertakings, such as the Yale edition of James Boswell and the Oxford/McGill-Queen's edition of Frances Burney, are still in progress, and some of the most long-standing, such as the Oxford and Chicago editions of Alexander Pope and Edmund Burke respectively, now require extensive supplementation, perhaps even replacement. "--

Series Statement

• The Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Samuel Richardson ; 10
• Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Correspondence. Cambridge University Press ; 10.

Uniform Title

Correspondence. Selections

Alternative Title

• Correspondence.
• Correspondence primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750-1754)

Subject

• Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 > Correspondence
• Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
• Novelists, English > 18th century > Correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

General editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- List of abbreviations -- General introduction -- Richardson's correspondence primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750-1754) -- General index.

Call Number

JFE 16-7561

ISBN

• 9780521832182 (hardcover)
• 0521832187 (hardcover)
• 1316121070
• 9781316121078

LCCN

• 2014010866
• 40024466799

OCLC

899215037

Author

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761, author.

Title

Samuel Richardson : correspondence primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750-1754) / edited by Betty A. Schellenberg.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Samuel Richardson ; 10

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Correspondence. Cambridge University Press ; 10.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Added Author

Schellenberg, Betty A., editor.

Other Form:

ebook version 9781316121078

Other Standard Identifier

40024466799

Research Call Number

JFE 16-7561