Samuel Richardson's The History ofSir Charles Grandison (1753-54) offers a noteworthy eightee... more Samuel Richardson's The History ofSir Charles Grandison (1753-54) offers a noteworthy eighteenth-century example ofwhat Gérard Genette terms "paratext," that is, the liminal devices and conventions that mediate a book to the reader.1 In the physical production of his final novel, Richardson appended addenda of all kinds, increasing the bulk of his already mammoth epistolary narrative with an extensive machinery of framing puffs and catalogues.2 At the
Samuel Richardson's The History ofSir Charles Grandison (1753-54) offers a noteworthy eightee... more Samuel Richardson's The History ofSir Charles Grandison (1753-54) offers a noteworthy eighteenth-century example ofwhat Gérard Genette terms "paratext," that is, the liminal devices and conventions that mediate a book to the reader.1 In the physical production of his final novel, Richardson appended addenda of all kinds, increasing the bulk of his already mammoth epistolary narrative with an extensive machinery of framing puffs and catalogues.2 At the
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