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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... Clarissa has been seen . . . as commentary on the perversion of parental authority , as Christian paradigm , as revelation of bourgeois social values and ... eighteenth - century class struc-. 10 Samuel Richardson : Passion and Prudence.
... Clarissa has been seen . . . as commentary on the perversion of parental authority , as Christian paradigm , as revelation of bourgeois social values and ... eighteenth - century class struc-. 10 Samuel Richardson : Passion and Prudence.
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Passion and Prudence Valerie Grosvenor Myer. bourgeois social values and ... eighteenth - century class struc- ture , as sexual myth ... ( ... soft - core pornography ) ... both feminist and anti - feminist document . A look at the ...
Passion and Prudence Valerie Grosvenor Myer. bourgeois social values and ... eighteenth - century class struc- ture , as sexual myth ... ( ... soft - core pornography ) ... both feminist and anti - feminist document . A look at the ...
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... social presence : a witty , mocking , wicked joker and gentleman . He has none of the brooding sexuality of a Heathcliff . This is because while his letters describe Clarissa's ' charms ' , hers describe his conduct . Although she ...
... social presence : a witty , mocking , wicked joker and gentleman . He has none of the brooding sexuality of a Heathcliff . This is because while his letters describe Clarissa's ' charms ' , hers describe his conduct . Although she ...
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... social groups they represent ; and for the vitalizing effect of Clarissa's integrity . Perhaps in one way it is easier to sympathize with her than it was for Richardson's contemporaries ; few people nowadays would consider marriage a ...
... social groups they represent ; and for the vitalizing effect of Clarissa's integrity . Perhaps in one way it is easier to sympathize with her than it was for Richardson's contemporaries ; few people nowadays would consider marriage a ...
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... social and even modern , yet archetypal . There is always something new to say about it . Clarissa takes a long time to read ( Sir Angus Wilson , in his essay within this book , says it absorbed him for three weeks ) . It is , in the ...
... social and even modern , yet archetypal . There is always something new to say about it . Clarissa takes a long time to read ( Sir Angus Wilson , in his essay within this book , says it absorbed him for three weeks ) . It is , in the ...
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.