Author: Samuel Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851964611
Category : Epistolary fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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Author: Florian Stuber
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040245633
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 611

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This three-volume set brings together all that Samuel Richardson himself published on the composition, printing and interpretation of "Clarissa". The various short works reveal Richardson's reactions to the concerns and issues raised by contemporary readers.

Author: Professor E Derek Taylor
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475166
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson's other novels is Richardson's unique awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, in its engagement with virtually every category of human experience, and in its author's desire to communicate religious truth, E. Derek Taylor suggests, Clarissa truly is the Paradise Lost of the eighteenth century. Arguing that Clarissa's cohesiveness and intellectual rigor have suffered from the limitations of the Lockean model frequently applied to the novel, Taylor turns to the writings of John Norris, a well-known disciple of the theosophy of Nicolas Malebranche. Allusions to this first of Locke's philosophical critics appear in each of the novel's installments, and Taylor persuasively documents how Norris's ideas provided Richardson with a usefully un-Lockean rhetorical grounding for Clarissa. Further, the writings of early feminists like Norris's intellectual ally Mary Astell, who viewed her arguments on behalf of women as compatible with her conservative and deeply held religious and political views, provide Richardson with the combination of progressive feminism and conservative theology that animate the novel. In a convincing twist, Taylor offers a closely argued analysis of Lovelace's oft-stated declaration that he will not be 'out-Norris'd' or 'out-plotted' by Clarissa, showing how the plot of the novel and the plot of all humans exist, in the context of Richardson's grand theological experiment, within, through, and by a concurrence of divine energy.

Author: Samuel Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epistolary fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1270

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Author: Martha J. Koehler
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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"Models of Reading will be of interest to Richardson, Burney, and Laclos scholars, as well as specialists in the history of the novel, the culture of sensibility, epistolary fiction, gender, and theories of reading. Koehler's arguments incorporate much recent criticism of eighteenth-century fiction, making this study a useful compendium even beyond the value of its own findings."--Jacket.

Author: Samuel Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epistolary fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1666

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Author: Margaret Anne Doody
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781851964611
Category : Epistolary fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1312

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This three-volume set brings together all that Samuel Richardson himself published on the composition, printing and interpretation of "Clarissa". The various short works reveal Richardson's reactions to the concerns and issues raised by contemporary readers.

Author: Samuel Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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