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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... death finds her above all at one with her own meaning , Richardson's final variation on the letter - writing theme conveys Lovelace's meaninglessness : ' A shower of rain has left me nothing else to do ; And therefore I write this ...
... death finds her above all at one with her own meaning , Richardson's final variation on the letter - writing theme conveys Lovelace's meaninglessness : ' A shower of rain has left me nothing else to do ; And therefore I write this ...
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... death is , torn as we are between the sense that for Lovelace as energy , death is unimaginable , while for Clarissa , it is life itself . For as Law writes on the Kingdom of Self and the Kingdom of Christ , ' These two Kingdoms take in ...
... death is , torn as we are between the sense that for Lovelace as energy , death is unimaginable , while for Clarissa , it is life itself . For as Law writes on the Kingdom of Self and the Kingdom of Christ , ' These two Kingdoms take in ...
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... death , Clarissa is increasingly free — serene , acquiescent and unchallenged ; she is at rest , while her adversary ... death . Clarissa's death is contrasted with those of Belton and Mrs. Sinclair , both of whom die tormented by their ...
... death , Clarissa is increasingly free — serene , acquiescent and unchallenged ; she is at rest , while her adversary ... death . Clarissa's death is contrasted with those of Belton and Mrs. Sinclair , both of whom die tormented by their ...
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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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