TY  - BOOK
AU  - Konigsberg,Ira
TI  - Samuel Richardson & the dramatic novelIra Konigsberg
SN  - 9780813163727
AV  - PR3667 .S268 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Epistolary fiction, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Technique
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Novelist Q Critic of the Drama ; CHAPTER TWO: Maidens Q Libertines ; CHAPTER THREE: Sentimental Literature 6. Static Sensibility ; CHAPTER FOUR: The Tragedy of Clarissa ; CHAPTER FIVE: The Dramatic Novel ; Notes ; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; 2; b
N2  - Samuel Richardson, the founder of the modern English novel, gave shape to a previously unformed literary genre. Instrumental in the development of this new art form, Ira Konigsberg contends, is the influence of the drama. Although scholars have long suspected the influence of drama on Richardson's writing, this is the first study to examine it in detail. In such matters as material, technique, and structure, Konigsberg seeks to show that Richardson found his precedents in Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama and that it was his integration of these dramatic elements with fiction which
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