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I have time for a few lines preparative to what is to happen in an hour or two; and I love to write to the moment—
Lovelace writes this to Belford at eleven
o’clock on the night when he is planning to rape Clarissa. It is
not the night on which he actually
In this instance, Lovelace’s to-the-moment writing also
acts as a device for increasing suspense and drama: we see the rapist
as he prepares for his crime and watch as he struggles with his
heart and conscience. It should be noted that there is also something
ridiculous about this immediacy: do rapists really sit down to write
before they attack? Richardson’s parodists picked up on this idea;
in
