Early Works by Samuel Richardson, Alexander Pettit - 9780521830522

Early Works'Aesop's Fables', 'Letters Written to and for Particular Friends' and Other Works\nAuthor(s): Samuel Richardson, Alexander Pettit\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521830522, 978-0521830522\nSynopsis\nThis is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson [tel], 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 w.