Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing

AvLouise Curran

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-03-17
Mått:158 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107131514

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Louise Curran is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford. She is co-editor (with George Justice and Devoney Looser) of Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732-1749), a forthcoming volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. As well as articles on Richardson's correspondence, she has written on Pope's Rape of the Lock and Milton's reception in eighteenth-century verse miscellanies.

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'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

Innehållsförteckning

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.

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Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732-1749)

Samuel Richardson, Louise Curran, George Justice, Sören Hammerschmidt, Sören Hammerschmidt, Louise (University of Birmingham) Curran, George (University of Tulsa) Justice, Maricopa Community Colleges) Hammerschmidt, Soren (GateWay Community College

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