The Novel and Human Rights
Lynn Hunt, the author of Inventing Human Rights explains how the popularity of the epistolary novel coincides with the birth of Human Rights as we speak of them today.
You DO NOT need to watch the entire video. Start at chapter 8 and watch through to the end of chapter 10 when she quotes Thomas Jefferson. If you are into it, you can certainly keep watching.
Click https://www.sam-network.org/video/the-genesis-of-human-rights link to open resource.