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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... reading by Judith Fisher , Uni- versity of Alberta , Canada , of Pamela , which consid- ers psychic space . Sir Angus Wilson accounts for Clarissa's continuing fascination ; Professor Margaret Anne Doody , of Princeton , leading author ...
... reading by Judith Fisher , Uni- versity of Alberta , Canada , of Pamela , which consid- ers psychic space . Sir Angus Wilson accounts for Clarissa's continuing fascination ; Professor Margaret Anne Doody , of Princeton , leading author ...
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... readers acknowl- edge to be Richardson's power to involve and disturb . Attempts to analyse the nature and effect of this disturbance used to be morally and socially based ; now they are more likely to concentrate on structure . Judith ...
... readers acknowl- edge to be Richardson's power to involve and disturb . Attempts to analyse the nature and effect of this disturbance used to be morally and socially based ; now they are more likely to concentrate on structure . Judith ...
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... readers , though Jane Austen and George Eliot liked the book . In the present collection , R. T. Jones defends it ... reading different from the pomp and parade of romance- writing , and dismissing the improbable and marvellous , with ...
... readers , though Jane Austen and George Eliot liked the book . In the present collection , R. T. Jones defends it ... reading different from the pomp and parade of romance- writing , and dismissing the improbable and marvellous , with ...
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... readers . The theory , however , could not cope with Richardson , though it grudgingly admired him . In the ... reading Clarissa than emo- tional exhaustion ' ( Beer , ' Richardson , Milton and the Status of Evil ' , R.E.S. , N.S. 19 ...
... readers . The theory , however , could not cope with Richardson , though it grudgingly admired him . In the ... reading Clarissa than emo- tional exhaustion ' ( Beer , ' Richardson , Milton and the Status of Evil ' , R.E.S. , N.S. 19 ...
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... reading , and further- more that he would have enjoyed the continued agitation of female readers over his imaginary people , a follow - up to the adoring circles he commanded when alive . Castle writes to contradict W. B. Warner , whose ...
... reading , and further- more that he would have enjoyed the continued agitation of female readers over his imaginary people , a follow - up to the adoring circles he commanded when alive . Castle writes to contradict W. B. Warner , whose ...
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.