Samuel Richardson and the art of letter-writing / Louise Curran.
"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 cons...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of 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.