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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... offers a note on Richardson's use of Shakespeare , in particular Measure for Measure . R. T. Jones argues that Sir Charles Grandison was intended less as a cliffhanger than as an invitation to debate . Pat Rogers , DeBartolo Professor ...
... offers a note on Richardson's use of Shakespeare , in particular Measure for Measure . R. T. Jones argues that Sir Charles Grandison was intended less as a cliffhanger than as an invitation to debate . Pat Rogers , DeBartolo Professor ...
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... offer , are we to trust ? Even Clarissa's version of truth is challenged by Anna's , as Keiko Izubuchi points out in the present book . Castle argues that Clarissa's fractured utterance is a function of her oppression as a female . I ...
... offer , are we to trust ? Even Clarissa's version of truth is challenged by Anna's , as Keiko Izubuchi points out in the present book . Castle argues that Clarissa's fractured utterance is a function of her oppression as a female . I ...
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... offers us a sympto- matic compensatory revenge - fantasy on the would - be macho hero - villain , a non - consummation devoutly wished and there- fore postulated , as revealing an interference as Lady Brads- haigh's . Lady Bradshaigh ...
... offers us a sympto- matic compensatory revenge - fantasy on the would - be macho hero - villain , a non - consummation devoutly wished and there- fore postulated , as revealing an interference as Lady Brads- haigh's . Lady Bradshaigh ...
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... offers melodrama , sex and violence combined with moral uplift ; our sadness is blended with relief at Clarissa's escape from an intolerable world , satisfaction in her moral victory , in Lovelace's disappointment and his final ...
... offers melodrama , sex and violence combined with moral uplift ; our sadness is blended with relief at Clarissa's escape from an intolerable world , satisfaction in her moral victory , in Lovelace's disappointment and his final ...
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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.