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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... raped you ? " ( Eagleton , The Rape of Clarissa ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1982 ) , p . 80 ) . Eagleton earns plus points for his exposure of Warner's moral brutality , but gets minus points for the wildly confused passage in which we read ...
... raped you ? " ( Eagleton , The Rape of Clarissa ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1982 ) , p . 80 ) . Eagleton earns plus points for his exposure of Warner's moral brutality , but gets minus points for the wildly confused passage in which we read ...
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... rape is pre- figured by Lovelace's insolent removal of her kerchief to plant an intrusive kiss ; her bosom heaves with anger and with sobs . The book has generally been considered erotic , though the account of the rape is so ' thin ...
... rape is pre- figured by Lovelace's insolent removal of her kerchief to plant an intrusive kiss ; her bosom heaves with anger and with sobs . The book has generally been considered erotic , though the account of the rape is so ' thin ...
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... rape , a blatant external image of her defloration , which stirs in the reader's mind dark , intimate comparisons . The double pull of Clarissa is the inescapable human dilemma of flesh and spirit ; the spirit wins in the novel , but we ...
... rape , a blatant external image of her defloration , which stirs in the reader's mind dark , intimate comparisons . The double pull of Clarissa is the inescapable human dilemma of flesh and spirit ; the spirit wins in the novel , but we ...
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... raped ; rape turns the dream into nightmare . Clarissa plays on deep , embarrassingly powerful , wishes and fears , which in daily life must be contained and hidden . Critics who complain that Clarissa is asking for it , that Lovelace ...
... raped ; rape turns the dream into nightmare . Clarissa plays on deep , embarrassingly powerful , wishes and fears , which in daily life must be contained and hidden . Critics who complain that Clarissa is asking for it , that Lovelace ...
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... rape is all the more horrifying for being described dimly , through Clarissa's drugged semi - conscious- ness ; the nose - bleed is a clear image that directs our minds inevitably towards more intimate bleeding . We do read Richardson ...
... rape is all the more horrifying for being described dimly , through Clarissa's drugged semi - conscious- ness ; the nose - bleed is a clear image that directs our minds inevitably towards more intimate bleeding . We do read Richardson ...
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.