Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics

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Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

source: http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/richrdsn.htm

born: 19 August 1689

• Rambler 97, ed. by Jack Lynch.
• The Samuel Richardson Page

• Eaves, T.C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel (1971). Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

• Carroll, John (ed.) (1964). Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Slattery, William (1969). The Richardson-Stinstra Correspondence, and Stinstra's Prefaces to Clarissa. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

language

• Ball, Donald L. (1976). 'Richardson's resourceful wordmaking'. South Atlantic Bulletin 41. 56-65.
• Erämetsä, Erik (1952). 'Notes on Richardson's Language". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 53. 18-20.
• Ito, Hiroyuki (1991). 'Some observations on the role of the verb in Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe'. In: Michio Kawai (ed.), Language and Style in English Literature. Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. Hiroshima: The English Research Association of Hiroshima. 634-649.
• Keast, William R. (1957).''The two Clarissa’s in Johnson’s Dictionary'. Studies in Philology 54, 429-439.
• Murata, Kazuho (2003). "Richardson's revision of Pamela and the use of phrasal verbs". Studies in Modern English. The Twentieth Anniversary Publication of The Modern English Association. Tokyo: Eichosha. 443-455.
• Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (1991). 'Samuel Richardson's role as linguistic innovator: A sociolinguistic analysis'. In: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and John Frankis (eds.), Language: Usage and Description. Studies Presented to N.E. Osselton on the Occasion of his Retirement. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 47-57. [Repr. in: Mats Rydén, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Merja Kytö (eds.) (1998), A Reader in Early Modern English. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 407-418.] 
• Tucker, Susie I. (1961). 'Predatings from Samuel Richardson's Familiar Letters'. Notes and Queries 206. 56-57.
• Tucker, Susie I. (1966). 'Richardsonian phrases'.  Notes and Queries 211. 464-465.
• Uhrström, Wilhelm (1907). Studies on the Language of Samuel Richardson. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell.
•  Wakimoto, Kyoko. 1990. “The Vocabulary of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela”. ERA New Series (The English Research Association of Hiroshima, Hiroshima University) 8, No. 1. 51-76.
• Wakimoto, Kyoko. 1991. “A Comparative Study of Richardson’s Pamela and Fielding’s Shamela : Verbal Characterization (1)”. ERA New Series (The English Research Association of Hiroshima, Hiroshima University) 9, No. 1. 38-58.
• Wakimoto, Kyoko. 1992. “A Comparative Study of Richardson’s Pamela and Fielding’s Shamela : Verbal Characterization (2)”. ERA New Series (The English Research Association of Hiroshima, Hiroshima University) 10, No. 1. 1-24.
• Wakimoto, Kyoko. 2003. “A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Richardson's Pamela as a Founder of Sentimental Novels: Erämetsä (1951) Reconsidered”. In: “FUL OF HY SENTENCE”, ed. Kanno Masahiko. Tokyo: Eihosha. 173-192.

 of further interest

• Zirker Jr., Malvin R. (1966). 'Richardson's correspondence: The personal letter as private experience'. In: Howard Anderson, Philip B. Daghlian and Irvin Ehrenpreis (eds.), The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. 71-91.

(for additions, contact Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade)