Correspondence of Richardson''s Final Years (17551761)

Offers the first scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson's final correspondence tracing his physical decline and abiding commitment to work.

List of contents

General editors' preface; General introduction; Textual introduction; The correspondence of Richardson's final years, (1755-61); Appendix I. Richardson's commentary on Anna Meades's The History of Sir William Harrington; Appendix II. Samuel Richardson's will; Index.

About the author

Shelley King is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen's University, Ontario. With John B. Pierce, she co-edited The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie (2009) and Opie's novels The Father and Daughter with Dangers of Coquetry (2003) and Adeline Mowbray (1999), as well as George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (2014). Also with Pierce, she developed and maintains The Amelia Alderson Opie Archive, a website dedicated to resources for the study of Opie's works. King is co-editor of Refiguring the Coquette: Essays in Coquetry and Culture (with Yael Schlick, 2008).John B. Pierce is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen's University, Ontario. With Shelley King, he co-edited The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie (2009) and Opie's novels The Father and Daughter with Dangers of Coquetry (2003) and Adeline Mowbray (1999), as well as George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (2014). Also with King, he developed and maintains The Amelia Alderson Opie Archive, a website dedicated to resources for the study of Opie's works. He is the author of Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas (1998) and 'The Wond'rous Art': William Blake and Writing (2003).

Summary

The first scholarly edition of author, printer and businessman Samuel Richardson's correspondence from his final years as he struggles with physical decline. Drawn from a range of print and manuscript sources, the letters are fully annotated and supported by a textual apparatus detailing all emendations and editorial adjustments.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Richardson
• Assisted by: Shelley King (Editor), Shelley (Queen's University King (Editor), King Shelley (Editor), John Pierce (Editor), John B. Pierce (Editor), John B. (Queen's University Pierce (Editor), Pierce John B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780521831888
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83188-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Edition of the Corre; Cambridge Edition of the Corre; The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Diaries, letters & journals, English, Autobiography: business & industry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Autobiography: literary, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: business and industry