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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... admire , aye , greatly admire , Richardson . His mind is so very vile a mind , so oozy , so hypocritical , praise - mad , canting , envious , concupiscent ! ( Anima Poetae , ed . Ernest Hartley Coleridge , London 1895 , p . 166 , cited ...
... admire , aye , greatly admire , Richardson . His mind is so very vile a mind , so oozy , so hypocritical , praise - mad , canting , envious , concupiscent ! ( Anima Poetae , ed . Ernest Hartley Coleridge , London 1895 , p . 166 , cited ...
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... admired by sophisticates in our own century ) , Goethe , Balzac — all acknowledged their great debt to this novel ... admiration is more than traditional , like their set phrases about their own classics . ' In any case , the intensity ...
... admired by sophisticates in our own century ) , Goethe , Balzac — all acknowledged their great debt to this novel ... admiration is more than traditional , like their set phrases about their own classics . ' In any case , the intensity ...
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... admire her more and more ; I am astonished at the author : his invention , his fine sentiments , strong sense , lively wit , and above all his exalted piety and excellent design in the whole . I find many beauties escaped me in my first ...
... admire her more and more ; I am astonished at the author : his invention , his fine sentiments , strong sense , lively wit , and above all his exalted piety and excellent design in the whole . I find many beauties escaped me in my first ...
Contents
Introduction by Valerie Grosvenor Myer | 7 |
The Relationship between Physical | 21 |
Clarissa by Angus Wilson | 41 |
Copyright | |
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