By: Claire Noring In the 18th-century, the popularity of the allegorical novel had faded. Moral plays like Everyman were out of fashion. Instead, a focus on psychological profiles and real-life descriptions rose with the help of convincing detail. An excellent example of this is Samuel Richardson’s 1748 epistolary novel, Clarissa, or the History of a … Continue reading Treatment of Allegory in the 18th-Century