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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... writing , and dismissing the improbable and marvellous , with which novels generally abound ' , in the hope of promoting ' the cause of religion and virtue ' . However , despite this and similar statements of moral and artistic intent ...
... writing , and dismissing the improbable and marvellous , with which novels generally abound ' , in the hope of promoting ' the cause of religion and virtue ' . However , despite this and similar statements of moral and artistic intent ...
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... writing in the Monthly Magazine , September 1797 ( p . 180 ) : In the exquisite novel of Clarissa [ sic ] , impressed by its various excellencies , and carried away by the magic powers of a sovereign ... written at any time 9 Introduction.
... writing in the Monthly Magazine , September 1797 ( p . 180 ) : In the exquisite novel of Clarissa [ sic ] , impressed by its various excellencies , and carried away by the magic powers of a sovereign ... written at any time 9 Introduction.
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Passion and Prudence Valerie Grosvenor Myer. Such a recipe could have been written at any time during the following century . What is interesting is the implication that Richardson lacks these qualities of ' acute discernment ' and ...
Passion and Prudence Valerie Grosvenor Myer. Such a recipe could have been written at any time during the following century . What is interesting is the implication that Richardson lacks these qualities of ' acute discernment ' and ...
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... writing on Clarissa reveals an array of curiously blinkered versions of the text ... ( Castle , p . 39 ) She adds , " Typically Clarissa's commentators naturalize their own readings — that is , identify them , exclusively with truth ...
... writing on Clarissa reveals an array of curiously blinkered versions of the text ... ( Castle , p . 39 ) She adds , " Typically Clarissa's commentators naturalize their own readings — that is , identify them , exclusively with truth ...
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... , then , must also be resisted . As Castle points out ( Castle , p . 29 ) views tend to be polarized , according to sex . Critics betray strong feelings when writing about Clarissa ; some. 12 Samuel Richardson : Passion and Prudence.
... , then , must also be resisted . As Castle points out ( Castle , p . 29 ) views tend to be polarized , according to sex . Critics betray strong feelings when writing about Clarissa ; some. 12 Samuel Richardson : Passion and Prudence.
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.