RetroInspection - Dracula - pt. 5

Epistolary novels were an invention of post medieval writers. As people came to understand the nature and power of writing, the ability to tell stories came into greater fashion for those with the education to do so.
What had been natural to most educated people of their day, letter writing: where information about families and friends were passed along through a courier system, came into vogue among a new class of storytelling: the novel.
It provided those who had been writing letters an intimacy they already knew and understood, and soon simple narratives were overtaken by epistolary novels which were comprised of letters, legal briefs, doctor's notes and newspaper stories of the day--as seen in Dracula--to name a few of the items used.

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