David Rain's Blog - Posts Tagged "clarissa"
Genius Begins: Mr Samuel Richardson and Miss Pamela Andrews
Reading Pamela’s letters, readers came to feel that they were Pamela; Richardson had obliterated reality and substituted the Pamela-world in its stead. It is for this reason – and not, I would argue, for some putative development of ‘realism’ – that Richardson is most to be valued as a major imaginative genius. The defining characteristic… Continue reading
