Samuel Richardson
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Oct 2, 2026
speaker_3HOST
It comes from the word epistle, which just means letter, and our source notes that Stoker was not the first to do this.
speaker_3HOST
I mean, Samuel Richardson built massive 18th century novels out of letters.
speaker_2HOST
Oh, right.
speaker_3HOST
Mary Shelley used nested documents for Frankenstein.
Rupert FordhamHOST
There's an earlier idea of sentiment, which I think meant sort of sympathy and connected to social action.
Rupert FordhamHOST
And it kind of built on that, didn't it? So I know that Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, written 60 years, 70 years before this, that that stimulates the reader's sympathy for a virtuous and persecuted protagonist.
Rupert FordhamHOST
But by the time it gets to Jane Austen, Sensibility, you're almost thinking it's all drama queens, aren't you? I think so.
Charlie FordhamHOST
I think so, yeah.
John PistelliHOST
Uh, and it kind of had that status by the time I got to, uh, uh, college in the early 2000s.
John PistelliHOST
And so at the beginning of this episode, you were just listening to the person I sort of jokingly call friend of the pod, this is not a person who knows I exist, uh, is Nancy Armstrong, the author of Desire and Domestic Fiction, the kind of classic, extremely interrogatory Foucauldian Marxist analysis of the domestic realist novel, more or less from Samuel Richardson to Virginia Woolf, though centered in the 19th century, of how...
John PistelliHOST
Well, I'll, I'll explain the argument in a moment.
John PistelliHOST
But, uh, she was saying, uh, there, uh, and I thought it was an interesting autobiographical aside in an interview with her from 2014 from a, uh, uh, the College of Humanities at BYU.
Jay RuudHOST
He didn't know that it was going to be still being read here 250 years later.
Jay RuudHOST
Stern's fellow novelist, Samuel Richardson, wrote that he could only describe Stern's volumes as execrable.
Jay RuudHOST
Oh, wow.
Jay RuudHOST
It was translated into German by 1769.
Meg RosenthalHOST
I took a... summa cum laude i i went to queen's university shout out queens shout out charlotte great english program um but i took a british literature class where we oh so fun and we um we read several early novels when like the novel was first being kind of developed and invented and um One of the first novels that accessed interiority was like in the 1700s.
Meg RosenthalHOST
And we read it was called Pamela by Samuel Richardson.
Meg RosenthalHOST
I am going to fact check this before I post this video, but I'm fairly certain this is novel was written in epistolary form, so it was like a series of letters.
Meg RosenthalHOST
So it almost read like a diary.
Frances DuncanHOST
I kind of get it.
Emma DunningHOST
In Sir Charles Granderson, which is Samuel Richardson's novel that Jane Austen loved, One of the defining features of Sir Charles Grandison is that he will not duel.
Emma DunningHOST
He doesn't consider it to be honourable.
Frances DuncanHOST
It's one of the things for people of a certain caste that if you don't duel when you are challenged, people look down on you.
Chad PostHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chad PostHOST
Like Samuel Richardson
Brian WoodHOST
also.
Brian WoodHOST
So meta, right? Like, Dear Reader.
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