Correspondence of Richardson's final years (1755-1761) /

Correspondence of Richardson's final years (1755-1761) /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761, author.
Uniform title:	Correspondence. Selections
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	lxv, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The Cambridge edition of the works and correspondence of Samuel Richardson. The correspondence ; 11 Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Correspondence. Cambridge University Press ; 11.
Subject:	Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761 -- Correspondence. Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761. Novelists, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence. Novelists, English. Personal correspondence.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11973280

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Varying Form of Title:	Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
Other authors / contributors:	King, Shelley, 1954- editor. Pierce, John Benjamin, 1957- editor.
ISBN:	9780521831888 0521831881
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The correspondence for the years 1755 to 1761 offers a dual narrative of the final years of Richardson's life. One strand follows the literary affairs of an author, editor, and mentor, who is also a printer engaged in a wide range of activities, seeking out new opportunities and expanding his business. Richardson laments that a life of 'work' now rendered all these activities more challenging than in former days, but a review of his personal and private life through his letters demonstrates his ongoing ability to complete existing commitments and projects as well as a willingness to enter into new arrangements up until his death. The counter narrative to this story of progress and expansion comes in the form of disruptions or, perhaps more accurately, interruptions in his life in which events beyond his control have a cumulative impact, diverting him into conflicts which threaten to overwhelm what he calls the 'Spirit of Scribbling' which ordinarily sustains him. The twin narratives of progress on the one hand and disruption on the other appear forcefully in his work as author, editor, mentor, and printer throughout these final years"--

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Summary:	Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was a prominent eighteenth-century printer and businessman as well as an important and influential English novelist. He was also a prolific letter writer. This volume in the first ever full edition of Richardson's correspondence offers a fascinating glimpse of the writer in his final years - at the height of his professional powers but facing the challenging circumstances of physical decline and commercial conflict. The collection of miscellaneous letters addresses a variety of issues ranging from details of Richardson's printing operation to his mentorship of women writers including Sarah Fielding, Anna Meades and Frances Sheridan. Other correspondents of note include Samuel Johnson, Meta Klopstock, Thomas Sheridan and Tobias Smollett. Taken together this series of letters draws an intimate picture of Richardson's professional and personal circles as they exchange family gossip, business advice, literary anecdotes and news of the day.
Physical Description:	lxv, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780521831888 0521831881