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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Passion and Prudence Valerie Grosvenor Myer. SAMUEL RICHARDSON : Passion and Prudence edited by Valerie Grosvenor Myer VISION and BARNES & NOBLE This One 4R6Q - ZUQ - HSG9 Vision Press Limited Fulham Wharf Townmead Road London SW6 2SB.
Passion and Prudence Valerie Grosvenor Myer. SAMUEL RICHARDSON : Passion and Prudence edited by Valerie Grosvenor Myer VISION and BARNES & NOBLE This One 4R6Q - ZUQ - HSG9 Vision Press Limited Fulham Wharf Townmead Road London SW6 2SB.
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... Press Ltd. First published in the U.S.A. 1986 All rights reserved Printed and bound in Great Britain by A. Wheaton & Co. Ltd. , Exeter , Devon . Phototypeset by Galleon Photosetting , Ipswich , Suffolk . MCMLXXXVI Contents Introduction ...
... Press Ltd. First published in the U.S.A. 1986 All rights reserved Printed and bound in Great Britain by A. Wheaton & Co. Ltd. , Exeter , Devon . Phototypeset by Galleon Photosetting , Ipswich , Suffolk . MCMLXXXVI Contents Introduction ...
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... Press , 1974 ) , p . 74 ) . Coleridge's verdict is perplexed , and has also been influential : I confess that it has cost , and still costs , my philosophy some exertion not to be vexed that I must admire , aye , greatly admire ...
... Press , 1974 ) , p . 74 ) . Coleridge's verdict is perplexed , and has also been influential : I confess that it has cost , and still costs , my philosophy some exertion not to be vexed that I must admire , aye , greatly admire ...
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... Press ) , 1982 , p . 199 ) But it is as the author of Clarissa that Richardson has earned undying fame and for this reason all but four of the essays in this volume are devoted to it . The critical problem is admirably summarized by ...
... Press ) , 1982 , p . 199 ) But it is as the author of Clarissa that Richardson has earned undying fame and for this reason all but four of the essays in this volume are devoted to it . The critical problem is admirably summarized by ...
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... 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 revolutionary epistemology : a view that Nature , truth ...
... 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 revolutionary epistemology : a view that Nature , truth ...
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.