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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... morally and socially based ; now they are more likely to concentrate on structure . Judith Fisher opens this collection with a consideration of Richardson's use of psychic space within this first ... moral scrupulosity of 7 Introduction.
... morally and socially based ; now they are more likely to concentrate on structure . Judith Fisher opens this collection with a consideration of Richardson's use of psychic space within this first ... moral scrupulosity of 7 Introduction.
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... moral and artistic intent in which romance is abjured ( including the hard - to - find preface in the body of the first edition ) it is widely recognized that much of the appeal of Clarissa comes from motifs drawn from romance and fairy ...
... moral and artistic intent in which romance is abjured ( including the hard - to - find preface in the body of the first edition ) it is widely recognized that much of the appeal of Clarissa comes from motifs drawn from romance and fairy ...
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... moral sensibility and an intimate acquaintance with human passions and powers . She adds : It is not necessary that we should be able to deduce from a novel , a formal and didactic moral ; it is sufficient if it has a tendency to raise ...
... moral sensibility and an intimate acquaintance with human passions and powers . She adds : It is not necessary that we should be able to deduce from a novel , a formal and didactic moral ; it is sufficient if it has a tendency to raise ...
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... moral sensibility ' ; that although he is a ' sovereign genius ' with ' magic powers ' , he is a liar . His beauties , she implies , are vitiated by this fault . Her comments are interesting in that they show the critical anxiety ...
... moral sensibility ' ; that although he is a ' sovereign genius ' with ' magic powers ' , he is a liar . His beauties , she implies , are vitiated by this fault . Her comments are interesting in that they show the critical anxiety ...
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... moral instruction ? ' ( Warner , p . 137 ) . Love and seduction ? What text has Warner been reading ? Richardson wrote a harrowing tale of sexual harass- ment and psychological torture , kidnap and rape . Terry Eagleton , with ...
... moral instruction ? ' ( Warner , p . 137 ) . Love and seduction ? What text has Warner been reading ? Richardson wrote a harrowing tale of sexual harass- ment and psychological torture , kidnap and rape . Terry Eagleton , with ...
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.