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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... sexual myth ... ( ... soft - core pornography ) ... both feminist and anti - feminist document . A look at the critical writing on Clarissa reveals an array of curiously blinkered versions of the text ... ( Castle , p . 39 ) She adds ...
... sexual myth ... ( ... soft - core pornography ) ... both feminist and anti - feminist document . A look at the critical writing on Clarissa reveals an array of curiously blinkered versions of the text ... ( Castle , p . 39 ) She adds ...
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... sexual harass- ment and psychological torture , kidnap and rape . Terry Eagleton , with magnificent scorn , demolishes the perverse morality of Warner's view that Lovelace is the hero and Clarissa the villain . He also replies ...
... sexual harass- ment and psychological torture , kidnap and rape . Terry Eagleton , with magnificent scorn , demolishes the perverse morality of Warner's view that Lovelace is the hero and Clarissa the villain . He also replies ...
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... sexual failure . It is not easy to tell whether Wilt is serious . If she is , then she offers us a sympto- matic compensatory revenge - fantasy on the would - be macho hero - villain , a non - consummation devoutly wished and there ...
... sexual failure . It is not easy to tell whether Wilt is serious . If she is , then she offers us a sympto- matic compensatory revenge - fantasy on the would - be macho hero - villain , a non - consummation devoutly wished and there ...
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... sexual rhythm , embodying tension , explosion and release . Yet the release is paradoxical , for Lovelace's victory is hollow , and Clarissa's rejection of him is a triumph of sublimation . Yet the novel , before the final beatification ...
... sexual rhythm , embodying tension , explosion and release . Yet the release is paradoxical , for Lovelace's victory is hollow , and Clarissa's rejection of him is a triumph of sublimation . Yet the novel , before the final beatification ...
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... sexual cruelty lurking in the bosom of man the hunter ! Lovelace invites at once identification and disapproval : he is the one , like Shakespeare's Richard III and Milton's Satan earlier , Emily Brontë's Heathcliff later ( not to ...
... sexual cruelty lurking in the bosom of man the hunter ! Lovelace invites at once identification and disapproval : he is the one , like Shakespeare's Richard III and Milton's Satan earlier , Emily Brontë's Heathcliff later ( not to ...
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.