Samuel Richardson: Passion and PrudenceValerie Grosvenor Myer The novelists of the eighteenth century are enjoying a popular, as well as a learned, revival. Chief among them is Richardson. Here an international team of brilliant scholars and critics comes together to reconsider Richardson's achievement and to assess recent approaches. |
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... Clarissa's continuing fascination ; Professor Margaret Anne Doody , of Princeton , leading author- ity on Richardson , writes about Clarissa's world as man - made , one in which women's work is de- valued ; Keiko Izubuchi , Professor of ...
... Clarissa's continuing fascination ; Professor Margaret Anne Doody , of Princeton , leading author- ity on Richardson , writes about Clarissa's world as man - made , one in which women's work is de- valued ; Keiko Izubuchi , Professor of ...
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... CLARISSA page 7 21 2 Clarissa by Angus Wilson 3 The Man - made World of Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace by Margaret Anne Doody 41 52 4 Subversive or Not ? Anna Howe's Function in Clarissa by Keiko Izubuchi 78 5 ' Triall by what is ...
... CLARISSA page 7 21 2 Clarissa by Angus Wilson 3 The Man - made World of Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace by Margaret Anne Doody 41 52 4 Subversive or Not ? Anna Howe's Function in Clarissa by Keiko Izubuchi 78 5 ' Triall by what is ...
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... Clarissa comes from motifs drawn from romance and fairy tale : Clarissa is literally ' a damsel in distress ' , her Uncle Antony's house , where the family threaten to imprison her , is ' moated ' . ( See Margaret Dalziell ...
... Clarissa comes from motifs drawn from romance and fairy tale : Clarissa is literally ' a damsel in distress ' , her Uncle Antony's house , where the family threaten to imprison her , is ' moated ' . ( See Margaret Dalziell ...
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... Clarissa [ sic ] , impressed by its various excellencies , and carried away by the magic powers of a sovereign genius , we almost lose sight of the false and pernicious principles , the violations of truth and nature , the absurd ...
... Clarissa [ sic ] , impressed by its various excellencies , and carried away by the magic powers of a sovereign genius , we almost lose sight of the false and pernicious principles , the violations of truth and nature , the absurd ...
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... Clarissa's Ciphers ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1982 ) was a shot in the arm for Richardson studies . She writes : As Ian Watt was one of the first to note , by its very diffuseness Clarissa impels its reader towards a ...
... Clarissa's Ciphers ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1982 ) was a shot in the arm for Richardson studies . She writes : As Ian Watt was one of the first to note , by its very diffuseness Clarissa impels its reader towards a ...
Contents
Closetwork The Relationship between Physical and Psychological Spaces in Pamela | 21 |
CLARISSA | 39 |
Clarissa | 41 |
The Manmade World of Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace | 52 |
Subversive or Not? Anna Howes Function in Clarissa | 78 |
Triall by what is contrary Samuel Richardson and Christian Dialectic | 93 |
Anfractuous Ways | 114 |
Well Read in Shakespeare | 126 |
SIR CHARLES GRANDISON | 133 |
Sir Charles Grandison A Gauntlet Thrown Out | 135 |
THE SEXS CHAMPION | 145 |
Richardson and the Bluestockings | 147 |
Richardsons Influence on Jane Austen Some Notes on the Biographical and Critical Problems of an Influence | 165 |
Notes on Contributors | 177 |
Index | 179 |
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Page 17 - Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted, that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion to the sentiment.