RICHARDSON AND HIS MAIN FOLLOWERS IN FRANCE: ON THE PROBLEM OF INFLUENCE
Zinov'eva Vera Vladimirovna
Moscow State Regional Institute of Humanities
Abstract. The article is devoted to investigating the influence of Samuel Richardson on the formation of a French epistolary novel. The paper examines the problem of developing psychological novel, reasons for introducing it in a form of a letter, reveals the methods for representing the reality used by Richardson and his French followers. Within the framework of the article the author presents a brief reference to the founder of the literature of English Enlightenment - D. Defoe and to Richardson’s contemporaries - T. Smollett and H. Fielding who chose the alternative way of novel development.
Key words and phrases: Ричардсон, Руссо, Лакло, XVIII век, эпистолярный роман, традиции сентиментализма и реализма в романе "Опасные связи", Richardson, Rousseau, Laclos, XVIII century, epistolary novel, the traditions of sentimentalism and realism in the novel "The Dangerous Liaisons"
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