Narrative technique

The "Epistolary way" chosen by Richardson uses the first person narrative technique throught personal letters and journals , provides different individual points of view on the same event , which is fully explored ; moreover it has  much in common with the dramatic technique, since the charecters introduce one another,using letters instead of speech , and the action is made up by a series of "scenes" with no general summaries. Another aspect of this literaryform is its immediacy : the reader is implicitly invited to believe that the letters are as they read them as they were in the very act of composition.