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Told in Letters: Epistolary Fiction Before Richardson

Told in Letters: Epistolary Fiction Before Richardson

Day, Robert

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ISBN10: 0472750925
ISBN13: 9780472750924
Publisher: Univ Of Michigan Pr
Published: Jan 1 1966
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Told in Letters is a study of the English novel before it came of age with Richardson's Pamela. The first book to trace the history and methods of using letters to tell a story, it draws on more than 200 little-known works written before Pamela. Many of these were designed for a public that had little concern with art.Here we see the origins of the psychological novel in its most primitive form. We also discover the achievements of early letter fiction such as the familiar letter and the widely imitated innovations of French fiction. In addition, Told in Letters portrays the Grub Street world that gave birth to popular literature, and describes the power that booksellers and popular taste had over these early novels.Finally, Richardson is reassessed in the light of his predecessors' writing, and we understand better the origins of a literary technique that did so much to revolutionize English fiction in the middle of the eighteenth century.

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