E Derek TaylorE. Derek Taylor is Professor of English at Longwood University. Along with a monograph, Reason and Religion: Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the 'Famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton' (Ashgate, 2009), he has published several essays specifically on Richrdson, among them 'Richardson and Religion' in Samuel Richardson in Context (Cambridge, 2017). He has served as the Samuel Richardson editor for The Scriblerian for over fifteen years and co-edited, with Melvyn New, Mary Astell and John Norris's Letters Concerning the Love of God (Ashgate, 2005). Read More Read Less