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epistolary novel

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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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The first, "Love Notes and Letters", was a collection of her most intimate letters to her lover, Antoine de Villedieu, and the second, "The Letter Case", was an epistolary novel constructed as a set of ten letters from the Marquis de Naumanoir to a nobleman in the provinces, which lightheartedly discuss the romantic misadventures of various Parisian socialites.
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