Told in Letters is a study of the English novel before it came of age with Richardson's Pamela. The first book to trace the history and methods of using letters to tell a story, it draws on more than 200 little-known works written before Pamela. Many of these were designed for a public that had little concern with art.Here we see the origins of the psychological novel in its most primitive form. We also discover the achievements of early letter fiction...
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