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Correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington
Samuel Richardson
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Description for Correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington
hardcover. First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson's correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington. Editor(s): Dussinger, John A. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. Num Pages: 450 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 906.
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), renowned master printer and celebrated English novelist, wrote hundreds of letters during his lifetime. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of these letters. This volume contains his correspondences, many published for the first time, with three very different young women, all seeking to find their voice within family and society while corresponding with a celebrated author and moralist. Sarah Wescomb and Frances Grainger, two young, unmarried correspondents, sought paternal advice from the middle-aged author and in the process contested stances taken in his novels. Laetitia Pilkington, an accused adulteress, ... Read more
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), renowned master printer and celebrated English novelist, wrote hundreds of letters during his lifetime. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of these letters. This volume contains his correspondences, many published for the first time, with three very different young women, all seeking to find their voice within family and society while corresponding with a celebrated author and moralist. Sarah Wescomb and Frances Grainger, two young, unmarried correspondents, sought paternal advice from the middle-aged author and in the process contested stances taken in his novels. Laetitia Pilkington, an accused adulteress, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521830348
SKU
V9780521830348
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About Samuel Richardson
John Dussinger is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois where he taught for 36 years. He is author of The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1974) and In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (1990), and has written numerous articles and reviews on iconic writers such as Swift, Shaftesbury, Locke, Hume, ... Read more
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