Part VI. Nationalism / Portraying the Life / Lisa O'Connell. Publication History / Peter Sabor -- Correspondence / Louise Curran -- Part II. Critical Fortunes. Editions / Hilary Havens -- Contemporary Transnational Reception / Mary Helen McMurran -- Reputation / Soren Hammerschmidt -- Critical Reception to 1900 / Brian Corman -- Critical Reception since 1900 / Albert J. Rivero -- Part III. The Print Trade. The Stationers' Company / Ian Gadd -- Transnational Print Trade Relations / Norbert Schürer -- Authorship / Betty A. Schellenberg -- The Literary Marketplace / Catherine Ingrassia -- Part IV. The Book and Its Readers. The Material Book / Christopher Flint -- Editing / Pat Rogers -- Reading and Readers / Eve Tavor Bannet -- Part V. Literary Genres and the Arts. The Novel / April London -- Fables and Fairy-Tales / Margaret Anne Doody -- Letters / Joe Bray -- Educational Writing / Bonnie Latimer -- The English Language / Carol Percy -- Salon Culture and Conversation / Markman Ellis -- The Visual Arts / Lynn Shepherd -- Theatre and Drama / Darryl P. Domingo -- Humour / Simon Dickie -- Part VI. Social Structures and Social Life. Money and Economics / Edward Copeland -- The Law / Simon Stern -- Family / Toni Bowers -- Gender / Kathleen M. Oliver -- Sexuality / James Grantham Turner -- Medicine and Health / Heather Meek -- Death and Mourning Culture / Peter Walmsley -- London / Linda Bree -- Sentiment and Sensibility / Katherine Binhammer -- Religion / E. Derek Taylor -- Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility / Karen Lipsedge -- Politics / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Nationalism / Lisa O'Connell.
Summary:
"Since the publication of his novel 'Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded in 1740', Samuel Richardson's place in the English literary tradition has been secured. But how can that place best be described? Over the three centuries since embarking on his printing career the 'divine' novelist has been variously understood as moral crusader, advocate for women, pioneer of the realist novel and print innovator. Situating Richardson's work within these social, intellectual and material contexts, this new volume of essays identifies his centrality to the emergence of the novel, the self-help book, and the idea of the professional author, as well as his influence on the development of the modern English language, the capitalist economy, and gendered, medicalized, urban, and national identities. This book enables a fuller understanding and appreciation of Richardson's life, work and legacy, and points the way for future studies of one of English literature's most celebrated novelists."--Back jacket.
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