KnowraSamuel RichardsonLinked fromLinked fromThe 14 pages that link to Samuel Richardson, each with the reason it gives.All 14Related 11Narrower topic 1Compared with 2Epistolary novelRelated: His novels helped establish the long-form possibilities of letter-based storytelling.Psychological realismRelated: His letters and diaries presented emotion and moral deliberation from within.Samuel JohnsonRelated: Richardson’s rise as a novelist contrasts with Johnson’s critical and lexicographical route to literary authority.Romance novelRelated: His courtship narratives helped establish the novel’s focus on private feeling and moral choice.SentimentalismRelated: His epistolary novels helped establish private feeling as a major literary subject.Sentimental novelRelated: His novels established influential models of virtue, emotional trial, and domestic danger.Psychological FictionRelated: His letters make emotion, self-scrutiny, and moral choice central to narrative.Marriage plotRelated: Richardson made a heroine’s virtue, courtship, and marriage central engines of extended fiction.Psychological novelRelated: His letter-based narratives made private emotion a major source of plot.Fanny HillRelated: Cleland’s epistolary style emerged amid the popularity of Richardson’s novels.Abbé PrévostRelated: Prévost translated Richardson’s novels into French, helping introduce them to French readers.