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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... raise the mind by elevated sentiments , to warm the heart with generous affections , to enlarge our views , or to increase our stock of useful knowledge . Such a recipe could have been written at any time 9 Introduction.
... raise the mind by elevated sentiments , to warm the heart with generous affections , to enlarge our views , or to increase our stock of useful knowledge . Such a recipe could have been written at any time 9 Introduction.
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... heart . Lady Bradshaigh's affection for this hard - hearted manipu- lator exemplifies the sentimentalizing reader - response which likes to insist that energetic villains in literature are not really as black as they are painted ...
... heart . Lady Bradshaigh's affection for this hard - hearted manipu- lator exemplifies the sentimentalizing reader - response which likes to insist that energetic villains in literature are not really as black as they are painted ...
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... heart , Jack ! My heart ! ( I , p . 172 ) Writing of female friendship , Lovelace cynically insists that friendship is a ' mere word ' on the lips of women : a cork - bottomed shuttlecock , which they are fond of striking to and fro ...
... heart , Jack ! My heart ! ( I , p . 172 ) Writing of female friendship , Lovelace cynically insists that friendship is a ' mere word ' on the lips of women : a cork - bottomed shuttlecock , which they are fond of striking to and fro ...
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... heart . The images within the novel work upon us at various levels , generate multiple meanings . Within this volume , Rosemary Bechler suggests that Clarissa's journey illustrates ' the Christianised myth of the Neoplatonic circle of ...
... heart . The images within the novel work upon us at various levels , generate multiple meanings . Within this volume , Rosemary Bechler suggests that Clarissa's journey illustrates ' the Christianised myth of the Neoplatonic circle of ...
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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.