Samuel Richardson's Published Commentary on Clarissa, 1747-1765

by Samuel Richardson, Tom Keymer, O.M. Brack Jr.

This three-volume set brings together all that Samuel Richardson himself published on the composition, printing and interpretation of "Clarissa". The various short works reveal Richardson's reactions to the concerns and issues raised by contemporary readers.

Genres: Literary Criticism, 18th Century

3 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1911

About the author

Pamela (1740) and Clarissa Harlowe (1748) of English writer Samuel Richardson helped to legitimize the novel as a literary form in English.

An established printer and publisher for most of his life, Richardson wrote his first novel at the age of 51. He is best known for his major 18th-century epistolary novel Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

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