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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... novelist hopes to achieve― comes about in Clarissa through the happy union of the two popular forms of writing by which Richardson was influenced . As with Dickens , we have to be grateful that Richardson was a poorly educated man . His ...
... novelist hopes to achieve― comes about in Clarissa through the happy union of the two popular forms of writing by which Richardson was influenced . As with Dickens , we have to be grateful that Richardson was a poorly educated man . His ...
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... novelist to include the full poem within the third edition of the novel . Richardson's assertion that he was not governed by any low views and that having the poem set to music and the whole engraved 62 Samuel Richardson : Passion and ...
... novelist to include the full poem within the third edition of the novel . Richardson's assertion that he was not governed by any low views and that having the poem set to music and the whole engraved 62 Samuel Richardson : Passion and ...
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... novelist , emerged from the closet of bourgeois respectability to drama- tize so vividly the sexuality and family politics of the old - style domestic romance , that gave Fanny Burney a starting - point in fiction . She in turn ...
... novelist , emerged from the closet of bourgeois respectability to drama- tize so vividly the sexuality and family politics of the old - style domestic romance , that gave Fanny Burney a starting - point in fiction . She in turn ...
Contents
Introduction by Valerie Grosvenor Myer | 7 |
The Relationship between Physical | 21 |
Clarissa by Angus Wilson | 41 |
Copyright | |
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