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Biography

Name: Samuel Richardson
Birth Date: July 31, 1689
Death Date: July 4, 1761
Place of Birth: Derbyshire, England
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Samuel Richardson
1,199 words, approx. 4 pages
The English novelist Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) brought dramatic intensity and psychological insight to the epistolary novel. Fiction, including the novel told in letters, had become popular in England before Samuel Richardson's time, but he was the...
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Biography of Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson, often in his own time compared to Shakespeare for universality, originality, and emotional truth, is generally acknowledged as the founder of a new school of novel writing in England. The new novel had its origins partly in English...


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Samuel Richardson Quotes
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Samuel Richardson ( 1689-08-19 – 1761-07-04 ) was one of the most admired fiction-writers of his day, both in his native England and across Europe. He is now considered one of the fathers of the novel. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Pamela (1740) 1.2...


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Samuel Richardson Information
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Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major English 18th century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison...


News and Journals
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Studies in the Novel
New Essays on Samuel Richardson. (book reviews)
03/22/1998: 1,754 words, approx. 6 pages
RIVERO, ALBERT J., (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996). 232 pp. $39.50. Hostile readers, confusing Samuel Richardson with his heroines, have sometimes complained, with Samuel Johnson, that there is always something Richardson prefers to the truth. The editor of this volume of...
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Studies in the Novel
Learning to read Richardson: 'Pamela,' 'speaking pictures,' and the visual hermeneutic. (Samuel Richardson)
06/22/1993: 9,557 words, approx. 32 pages
Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela' uses visual art techniques and recognizable emblems to convey levels of meaning. Richardson is innovative in his use of visual hermeneutic in that his narrator-protagonist Pamela does not interpret the symbols. This simultaneously compels the reader to interpret the work and...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Leslie Stephen
12,534 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following essay, Stephen argues that Richardson 's integration of "feminine " characteristics into his style—namely, propensities for letter-writing, flattery, idle chatter, and "the delicate perception, the sensibility to emotion, and the interest in small details"—is responsible for both the merits and defects of his works.
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Critical Essay by Alan Dugald McKillop
8,444 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following excerpt, McKillop surveys eighteenth-century criticism of Richardson's novels.
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Critical Essay by Leon M. Guilhamet
8,027 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Guilhamet contends that undue emphasis has been placed on Richardson's realism. He suggests that, instead, the proper focus should be on the novelist's moral ideals.
 


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