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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... Natural Passion ( Oxford : at the Clarendon Press , 1974 ) , p . 74 ) . Coleridge's verdict is perplexed , and has also been ... nature and effect of this disturbance used to be morally and socially based ; now they are more likely to ...
... Natural Passion ( Oxford : at the Clarendon Press , 1974 ) , p . 74 ) . Coleridge's verdict is perplexed , and has also been ... nature and effect of this disturbance used to be morally and socially based ; now they are more likely to ...
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... Later she writes , ' Richardson's careful attention to the minutiae con- vinces us that his fairy tales , filled with violence and passion , are plain and natural accounts of real life ' ;. 8 Samuel Richardson : Passion and Prudence.
... Later she writes , ' Richardson's careful attention to the minutiae con- vinces us that his fairy tales , filled with violence and passion , are plain and natural accounts of real life ' ;. 8 Samuel Richardson : Passion and Prudence.
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... nature , the absurd superstitions and ludicrous prejudices with which , notwithstanding the author's rectitude of intention , it abounds . The character of Clarissa , a beautiful superstructure upon a false and airy foundation , can ...
... nature , the absurd superstitions and ludicrous prejudices with which , notwithstanding the author's rectitude of intention , it abounds . The character of Clarissa , a beautiful superstructure upon a false and airy foundation , can ...
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... Nature , truth , indeed the real itself , exist first as private constructs , functions of subjective determination .... ( Castle , p . 27 ) This may be hard for the traditional humanist critic to take . But Castle , even for the ...
... Nature , truth , indeed the real itself , exist first as private constructs , functions of subjective determination .... ( Castle , p . 27 ) This may be hard for the traditional humanist critic to take . But Castle , even for the ...
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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.