Lost "in a Sort of Wilderness": The Epistemology of Love in Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
Samuel Richardson's final novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, incorporates the foundations of a sensibility that we might call "psychological fiction" found in such novels as Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cleves. Grandison depicts characters who revise, comment on, correct, and re-e...
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