Module I
- BBC Podcast on Epistolary literature
- Britannica short history of the epistolary novel
- Recommended: Letters, letter writing and epistolary novels by Louise Curran
- Browse images from Samuel Richardson’s Letters Written to and for Particular Friends
- Why writers use the epistolary novel
- Optional: Epistolary Fiction Audiobook playlist
- What is an epistolary novel? Alternative for Audio Learners
- Read: Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho (even though this text comes later, it will be used as a primary example of actual letter-writing)
- Excerpts from Singer (main critical text) Foreward, Chapter 1 The Development of the Literary Epistle, Chapter 2 The letter-Writer
- Excerpts from Postal Culture in Europe, 1500-1800 by Jay Caplan
- "Model Letters, Moral Living: Letter-Writing Manuals by Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson" by Victoria Myers appeared in Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 66, no. ¾, 2003
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