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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... influence on women writers ; Pat Rogers argues that Richardson opened up to women writers ways of dealing with their own experience , while Park Honan discusses the pervasive influence of Sir Charles Grandison in the novels of Jane ...
... influence on women writers ; Pat Rogers argues that Richardson opened up to women writers ways of dealing with their own experience , while Park Honan discusses the pervasive influence of Sir Charles Grandison in the novels of Jane ...
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... Influence on Jane Austen ( Some Notes on the Biographical and Critical Problems of an ' Influence ' ) by Park Honan Notes on Contributors Index 147 165 179 181 Introduction by VALERIE GROSVENOR MYER Whether or not it is.
... Influence on Jane Austen ( Some Notes on the Biographical and Critical Problems of an ' Influence ' ) by Park Honan Notes on Contributors Index 147 165 179 181 Introduction by VALERIE GROSVENOR MYER Whether or not it is.
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... 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 , Richardson . His mind is so very vile a mind , so oozy , so hypocritical , praise - mad ...
... 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 , Richardson . His mind is so very vile a mind , so oozy , so hypocritical , praise - mad ...
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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.