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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... Letters ( Princeton : Princeton University Press ) , 1982 , p . 199 ) But it is as the author of Clarissa that ... letter to Aaron Hill , 1 February 1741 , in which he states his intention of turning ' young people into a course of ...
... Letters ( Princeton : Princeton University Press ) , 1982 , p . 199 ) But it is as the author of Clarissa that ... letter to Aaron Hill , 1 February 1741 , in which he states his intention of turning ' young people into a course of ...
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... letters , forges replies , lies , cheats , degrades her by forcing her to associate with prostitutes , kidnaps and violates her , ' agreeable ' . His letters make it plain that he is perverted ; his goal is not sexual pleasure ( that is ...
... letters , forges replies , lies , cheats , degrades her by forcing her to associate with prostitutes , kidnaps and violates her , ' agreeable ' . His letters make it plain that he is perverted ; his goal is not sexual pleasure ( that is ...
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... letters describe Clarissa's ' charms ' , hers describe his conduct . Although she ' could have loved him ' she does not describe his appearance as he does hers . We know he has fathered various bastards , but we do not see him doing it ...
... letters describe Clarissa's ' charms ' , hers describe his conduct . Although she ' could have loved him ' she does not describe his appearance as he does hers . We know he has fathered various bastards , but we do not see him doing it ...
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... letters and his footnotes ; there are no grounds for imagining that he did not hope to write an improving tale with an edifying moral . What undermined his worthy intentions was the dark undertow of sexual feeling in the book , which by ...
... letters and his footnotes ; there are no grounds for imagining that he did not hope to write an improving tale with an edifying moral . What undermined his worthy intentions was the dark undertow of sexual feeling in the book , which by ...
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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.