Article: Using "femalities" to "make fine men": Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the feminization of narrative. (Samuel Richardson)

Samuel Richardson's active, "to the moment" correspondence with a circle of admiring readers is familiar to students of the eighteenth-century novel. As early as the first proofs of Clarissa, his notion of the novelistic text and the extra-textual discussion it generated appears to have been a porous one. Sending an early printing of volumes one and two to Aaron Hill, for example, he requests return of the copy, complete with "loose Papers paged, put in, with your Corrections."(1) Although Richardson's tone in the Clarissa correspondence is one of retrospective confidence in its characters and outcome, he is much more diffident in the first stages of his subsequent and ...

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