Author: Margaret Anne DoodyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A Natural Passion
Author: Margaret Anne DoodyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The History of Sir Charles Grandison
Author: Samuel RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded. [The Editor's Preface Signed: Thomas Archer.]
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Author: Samuel RichardsonSamuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender
Author: Tassie GwilliamPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804725225
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In developing a new gender theory for analyzing Samuel Richardson's three major novels - Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat expose, sometimes unwillingly, the extraordinary labor required to construct and maintain the eighteenth-century ideology of gender, that apparently natural dream of perfect symmetry between the sexes. The instability of that model is revealed notably in Richardson's fascination with cross-gender identification and other instances of transgressive desires. The author demonstrates that these violations of the supposedly unbreachable barriers between masculinity and femininity produce what is most moving and imaginative in Richardson's fiction and create an equally powerful repression in the form of punishment of transgressive characters and desires. She also illustrates, through a reading of recurrent fantasies about the composition of bodies - especially women's bodies - the complex interaction between those fantasies and the construction of masculinity and femininity. The genesis of Richardson's own writing is located in a dynamic, reciprocal idea of gender that allows him to see femininity from the inside while retaining the privileges of the masculine viewpoint; the relation between this origin and the novels themselves forms the basis for the discussions of the novels. Each of the three chapters in the book seeks to investigate particular turn of gender construction and a particular mode of the reiterative story of sexual differences. The first chapter, on Pamela, calls on eighteenth-century discourse about opposing ideologies of gender and sexuality to elucidate Richardson's project. The next chapter, on Clarissa, shifts to a more intricate analysis of fantasies about sex and gender, in particular the double reading of masculinity and femininity in the form of of masculinity reading itself through the feminine. The final chapter, on The History of Sir Charles Grandison, examines Richardson's attempt to solidify masculinity in the person of the "good man."
Samuel Richardson
Author: Thomas Cary Duncan EavesPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Familiar Letters on Important Occasions
Author: Samuel RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108034135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels, including Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1748), had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication, and these volumes, edited by Anna Laetitia Barbauld and first published in 1804, contain her selection from his papers. Richardson became a printer's apprentice in 1706 and for the rest of his life managed a successful printing business in addition to writing his highly popular and influential novels ...
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
Author: Michael BellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521515041
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A burlesque of Richardson's "Pamela", which was generally ascribed to Fielding at the time of its appearance and held by most authorities to be by him.--Cf. W.L. Cross' "The history of Henry Fielding", v. 1, p. 23, 303-308: Notes & queries, 12th ser. v. 1, p. 24-26.
Samuel Richardson
Author: William Merritt SalePublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description