KnowraClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyLinked fromLinked fromThe 7 pages that link to Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady, each with the reason it gives.All 7Broader topic 6Compared with 1Psychological realismBroader topic: Its letters trace Clarissa’s moral reasoning and emotional ordeal at length.SentimentalismBroader topic: Its epistolary form intensifies sympathy while exposing the costs of patriarchal power.Samuel RichardsonBroader topic: Richardson expanded the letter form into a tragedy of coercion, family power, and moral responsibility.Sentimental novelBroader topic: Its prolonged account of suffering and virtue became a landmark of sentimental fiction.Psychological FictionBroader topic: Its letters build an extended account of conflicting motives and emotional pressure.Epistolary literatureBroader topic: Its many correspondents turn conflicting testimony into the novel’s central structure.The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingCompared with: Its tragic seriousness contrasts with Fielding’s comic route to marriage and social reconciliation.