Epistolary Novels
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- Epistolary Novels
- decline in poplarity
- jane austen "love and friendship"
- shamela by henry fielding highlighted disadvantages
- increase in popularity
- development of postal service
- Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker (1771)
- mail-coaches
- popular form of communication
- increases relationshio between reader and character
- development of postal service
- decline in poplarity
- development of postal service
- Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker (1771)
- mail-coaches
- popular form of communication
- Samuel Richardson
- Epistolary Novels
- decline in poplarity
- jane austen "love and friendship"
- shamela by henry fielding highlighted disadvantages
- increase in popularity
- increases relationshio between reader and character
- decline in poplarity
- pamela
- more of a manual for women
- highloghted innocence and virtue which had not been seen in epistolary novels before
- love-letters
- normal form
- love-letters
- clarissa
- richardson wanted more control of his readers which he had lost in pamela
- Epistolary Novels
- peaked in epistolary form
- Samuel Richardson
- pamela
- more of a manual for women
- highloghted innocence and virtue which had not been seen in epistolary novels before
- love-letters
- normal form
- love-letters
- clarissa
- richardson wanted more control of his readers which he had lost in pamela
- pamela
- Samuel Richardson
- death of protagonist
- women
- becoming more literate in 18th century
- the closeness between readerand character allowed women to convincingly create female characters
- fanny burney
- women
- becoming more literate in 18th century
- the closeness between readerand character allowed women to convincingly create female characters
- character seeking approval from father
- relates to authors life
- women
- highlighted the exhausted form and ridiculousness
- fanny burney returned to third person novel
- 17th Century with writers like Aphra Behn “love
letters between a nobleman and his sister” new modern piece of literature
combined politics and situation
- absorbative reading form - closeness to character, difficult to distinguish between fiction and reality
- Jean-Jacques
Rousseau used the form as a vehicle for his ideas on marriage and education
- Philosophical novelist dramatizes elicit feelings and demands of society.
- presents an intimate view of the character’s
thoughts and feelings without interference from the author
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