Background
Day, Robert Adams was born on October 3, 1924 in Providence. Son of Irving Woodman and Mabel Evelyn (Adams) Day.
(Told in Letters is a study of the English novel before it...)
Told in Letters is a study of the English novel before it came of age with Richardson's Pamela. The first book to trace the history and methods of using letters to tell a story, it draws on more than 200 little-known works written before Pamela. Many of these were designed for a public that had little concern with art. Here we see the origins of the psychological novel in its most primitive form. We also discover the achievements of early letter fiction such as the "familiar letter" and the widely imitated innovations of French fiction. In addition, Told in Letters portrays the Grub Street world that gave birth to popular literature, and describes the power that booksellers and popular taste had over these early novels. Finally, Richardson is reassessed in the light of his predecessors' writing, and we understand better the origins of a literary technique that did so much to revolutionize English fiction in the middle of the eighteenth century.
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English and comparative literature educator
Day, Robert Adams was born on October 3, 1924 in Providence. Son of Irving Woodman and Mabel Evelyn (Adams) Day.
AB, Brown University, 1948. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1952.
Instructor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1952-1954; instructor, Queens College, Flushing, New York, 1954-1962; assistant professor, Queens College, Flushing, New York, 1962-1965; associate professor, Queens College, Flushing, New York, 1965-1970; professor, Queens College, Flushing, New York, from 1970; Professor of English, City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, from 1970; member of staff graduate center, CUNY, from 1970; professor comparative literature, CUNY, from 1974.
(Told in Letters is a study of the English novel before it...)
With United States Army, 1943-1945.