Early Works: 'Aesop's Fables', 'Letters Written to and for Particular Friends' and Other Works (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson)

Richardson, Samuel; Pettit, Alex (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0521830524 / ISBN 13: 9780521830522

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Works: 'Aesop's Fables', 'Letters Written to and for Particular Friends' and Other Works (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521830524
• ISBN 13: 9780521830522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct-writing, religious controversialism, anti-theatrical polemic, occasional verse, literary criticism – and his popular and surprisingly revealing edition of Aesop's Fables – resonate throughout his later work while claiming ample legitimacy of their own. Readers familiar with only Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison will gain a fresh appreciation of the genesis of and the historical and cultural complexities at work in these famous novels, and readers new to Richardson will encounter an agile writer who invites closer consideration. A lengthy introduction situates the constituent works in Richardson's career as well as in the period more broadly, and the extensive textual apparatus records the bibliographical histories of the texts and their treatment by their present editor.

About the Author

Alexander Pettit is Professor of English at the University of North Texas.