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Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing (Paperback)
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Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing (Paperback)
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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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