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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... Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre , and the heroines of numerous office and hospital romances of today . Fielding's satirical responses to it , in the shapes of Joseph Andrews and Shamela , are well known . Delightful as they are , they by ...
... Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre , and the heroines of numerous office and hospital romances of today . Fielding's satirical responses to it , in the shapes of Joseph Andrews and Shamela , are well known . Delightful as they are , they by ...
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... Charlotte's side . Not only have we beome accustomed to associate the entrance of Charlotte with the appearance of a mischievously , irreverently vivacious kind of talk , which often seems to offer relief from moral strenuousness , but ...
... Charlotte's side . Not only have we beome accustomed to associate the entrance of Charlotte with the appearance of a mischievously , irreverently vivacious kind of talk , which often seems to offer relief from moral strenuousness , but ...
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... Charlotte's should not be made , but only that they should not be made by his sister when he is trying to get a sensible answer from her ; the ' times and occasions ' make all the difference . Yet he has also called Charlotte's jest ...
... Charlotte's should not be made , but only that they should not be made by his sister when he is trying to get a sensible answer from her ; the ' times and occasions ' make all the difference . Yet he has also called Charlotte's jest ...
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Introduction by Valerie Grosvenor Myer | 7 |
The Relationship between Physical | 21 |
Clarissa by Angus Wilson | 41 |
Copyright | |
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