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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... Pamela , which consid- ers psychic space . Sir Angus Wilson accounts for Clarissa's continuing fascination ; Professor Margaret Anne Doody , of Princeton , leading author- ity on Richardson , writes about Clarissa's world as man - made ...
... Pamela , which consid- ers psychic space . Sir Angus Wilson accounts for Clarissa's continuing fascination ; Professor Margaret Anne Doody , of Princeton , leading author- ity on Richardson , writes about Clarissa's world as man - made ...
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... rights reserved Printed and bound in Great Britain by A. Wheaton & Co. Ltd. , Exeter , Devon . Phototypeset by Galleon Photosetting , Ipswich , Suffolk . MCMLXXXVI Contents Introduction by Valerie Grosvenor Myer Part One : PAMELA.
... rights reserved Printed and bound in Great Britain by A. Wheaton & Co. Ltd. , Exeter , Devon . Phototypeset by Galleon Photosetting , Ipswich , Suffolk . MCMLXXXVI Contents Introduction by Valerie Grosvenor Myer Part One : PAMELA.
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... PAMELA 1 ' Closet - work ' : The Relationship between Physical and Psychological Spaces in Pamela by J. W. Fisher Part Two : CLARISSA page 7 21 2 Clarissa by Angus Wilson 3 The Man - made World of Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace by ...
... PAMELA 1 ' Closet - work ' : The Relationship between Physical and Psychological Spaces in Pamela by J. W. Fisher Part Two : CLARISSA page 7 21 2 Clarissa by Angus Wilson 3 The Man - made World of Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace by ...
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... Pamela's marriage , Pamela , like Sir Charles Grandison , is read now only by students and scholars , perhaps because there is no longer a large class of servant - girls to identify with Pamela's triumph . Like Shakespeare's Viola , Pamela ...
... Pamela's marriage , Pamela , like Sir Charles Grandison , is read now only by students and scholars , perhaps because there is no longer a large class of servant - girls to identify with Pamela's triumph . Like Shakespeare's Viola , Pamela ...
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... Pamela or Clarissa Harlowe . ' Warner asks us : ' If the reader drinks the rich potion of love and seduction , will he be ready to return with the author at story's end to a spartan diet of moral instruction ? ' ( Warner , p . 137 ) ...
... Pamela or Clarissa Harlowe . ' Warner asks us : ' If the reader drinks the rich potion of love and seduction , will he be ready to return with the author at story's end to a spartan diet of moral instruction ? ' ( Warner , p . 137 ) ...
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.