Biography EssaySamuel 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 wr...
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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 Engl...
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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 Englan...
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In the following essay, Stephen argues that Richardson 's integration of "feminine " characteristics into his style—namely, propensities for letter-writing, flattery, idle ...
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In the following excerpt, McKillop surveys eighteenth-century criticism of Richardson's novels.
Literary history has confirmed the claims of Fielding and Richardson to be considered the foun...
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In the excerpt following, Konigsberg examines several epistolary techniques used by Richardson in his novels and explains how Richardson's handling of dialogue and visual descriptions enabled h...
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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 idea...
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In the following excerpt, Flynn discusses how Richardson uses elements of the fairy tale in creating a fantastic world and contends that—through editorial power and attention to minutiae—...
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Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson
Critical Essay by Leslie Stephen
