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epistolary novel

Novel written as if it is a collection of letters, exchanged by characters in the story. It may be used as a literary device to persuade the reader that the events described are real.

The English writer Samuel Richardson popularized the epistolary novel with his books Pamela (1740-41) and Clarissa (1747-48). The epistolary device, as well as diary entries, were often used in the gothic novel to give credibility to the often fantastical story.



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Classen's "Female Epistolary Literature from Antiquity to the Present: An Introduction," Studia Neophilologica 60 (1988): 3-13 may be suggested.
Toon Van Houdt, Jan Papy, Gilbert Tournoy, and Constant Matheeussen, ... by Polak, Emil J. / Renaissance Quarterly
Jensen, "Male Models of Feminine Epistolarity; or, How to Write Like a Woman in Seventeenth-Century France," in Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, Elizabeth Goldsmith, ed.
Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the ... by Dierks, Konstantin / Journal of Social History
A clear example of the correspondent-addressee relationship characteristic of epistolary literature can be found in those sonnets addressed to other poets.
Letters from home: the epistolary aspects of Joachim Du Bellay's 'Les ... by Bizer, Marc / Renaissance Quarterly
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