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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... Lovelace's fantasies of power and seduction in a morally and socially acceptable way . But when schemes of power become socially realizable , they also become flat and uninteresting . ( Flynn , Samuel Richardson : A Man of Letters ...
... Lovelace's fantasies of power and seduction in a morally and socially acceptable way . But when schemes of power become socially realizable , they also become flat and uninteresting . ( Flynn , Samuel Richardson : A Man of Letters ...
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... Lovelace is the hero and Clarissa the villain . He also replies , pertinently , to Kinkead- Weekes ' complaint that ... Lovelace's only hope is that , since Clarissa is the phallus , she cannot have it : his rape will not only denounce ...
... Lovelace is the hero and Clarissa the villain . He also replies , pertinently , to Kinkead- Weekes ' complaint that ... Lovelace's only hope is that , since Clarissa is the phallus , she cannot have it : his rape will not only denounce ...
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... Lovelace's disappointment and his final expiation . It may be worth pointing out that Lovelace's desire to marry the girl , even after the rape , is wavering ( III , p . 474 ) and envisaged as getting ' that lively bird into my cage ...
... Lovelace's disappointment and his final expiation . It may be worth pointing out that Lovelace's desire to marry the girl , even after the rape , is wavering ( III , p . 474 ) and envisaged as getting ' that lively bird into my cage ...
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... Lovelace . We feel unease , guilt , about our unwilling but fascinated complicity in his ' view ' of her . His ... Lovelace's dream of Clarissa's ascent to heaven and his own descent to hell , has been concerned with fleshly , as ...
... Lovelace . We feel unease , guilt , about our unwilling but fascinated complicity in his ' view ' of her . His ... Lovelace's dream of Clarissa's ascent to heaven and his own descent to hell , has been concerned with fleshly , as ...
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... Lovelace's cruelties ; we read it for its minute analysis of motive and emotion ; for the picture of struggle between the characters and the social groups they represent ; and for the vitalizing effect of Clarissa's integrity . Perhaps ...
... Lovelace's cruelties ; we read it for its minute analysis of motive and emotion ; for the picture of struggle between the characters and the social groups they represent ; and for the vitalizing effect of Clarissa's integrity . Perhaps ...
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.