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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... Milton and the Status of Evil ' , R.E.S. , N.S. 19 ( 1968 ) , 269 ) . So what are we to make of it all ? The wise words of D. H. Lawrence , ' Never trust the teller , trust the tale ' , do not help us much . They only draw our attention ...
... Milton and the Status of Evil ' , R.E.S. , N.S. 19 ( 1968 ) , 269 ) . So what are we to make of it all ? The wise words of D. H. Lawrence , ' Never trust the teller , trust the tale ' , do not help us much . They only draw our attention ...
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... ( Milton's Satan , Henry and Mary Crawford , and Becky Sharp have all had their defenders ) . Such wilful admiration is in itself a critical act , a tribute to the creative energies not of the character , who is a mere figment , but of ...
... ( Milton's Satan , Henry and Mary Crawford , and Becky Sharp have all had their defenders ) . Such wilful admiration is in itself a critical act , a tribute to the creative energies not of the character , who is a mere figment , but of ...
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... Milton's Satan earlier , Emily Brontë's Heathcliff later ( not to mention figures of popular mythology like Frankenstein's monster and Dracula ) whom we love to hate . All these , except the monster with bolts through his neck , have ...
... Milton's Satan earlier , Emily Brontë's Heathcliff later ( not to mention figures of popular mythology like Frankenstein's monster and Dracula ) whom we love to hate . All these , except the monster with bolts through his neck , have ...
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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.