Selected Letters Of Samuel Richardson
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few figures loom as large in the origins of the English novel as Samuel Richardson, and Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson offers an intimate window into the mind of the man who gave the world Pamela and Clarissa. Edited and introduced by John Carroll, this carefully curated collection gathers Richardson's most revealing correspondence, illuminating his creative process, his moral convictions, his relationships with fellow writers such as Lady Bradshaigh and Samuel Johnson, and the literary debates that shaped eighteenth-century England. Carroll's authoritative introduction and editorial apparatus situate each letter within its biographical and historical context, transforming what might otherwise be private exchanges into a rich primary source for understanding the birth of the epistolary novel as a form. Richardson's voice — earnest, morally impassioned, and surprisingly candid — emerges with remarkable clarity, making this volume an indispensable resource for scholars of Augustan literature and general readers alike. For anyone who has ever wondered what drove one of literature's great innovators, the answers lie waiting within these pages.
Author: John Carroll
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Clarendon Press · Oxford
Genre: Literary theory
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few figures loom as large in the origins of the English novel as Samuel Richardson, and Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson offers an intimate window into the mind of the man who gave the world Pamela and Clarissa. Edited and introduced by John Carroll, this carefully curated collection gathers Richardson's most revealing correspondence, illuminating his creative process, his moral convictions, his relationships with fellow writers such as Lady Bradshaigh and Samuel Johnson, and the literary debates that shaped eighteenth-century England. Carroll's authoritative introduction and editorial apparatus situate each letter within its biographical and historical context, transforming what might otherwise be private exchanges into a rich primary source for understanding the birth of the epistolary novel as a form. Richardson's voice — earnest, morally impassioned, and surprisingly candid — emerges with remarkable clarity, making this volume an indispensable resource for scholars of Augustan literature and general readers alike. For anyone who has ever wondered what drove one of literature's great innovators, the answers lie waiting within these pages.