Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader / Tom Keymer.
Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader / Tom Keymer.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Date
1992.
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N823.6/R525/33
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English
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xxiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Reading epistolary fiction. Familiar letters and the language of the heart. A short account of God's dealings with Pamela Andrews. Richardson's correspondence with Eusebius Silvester, 1754-1759; or, How to do things with letters. Epistolary form in Clarissa: some preliminaries. Richardson's reade...
Trials of the reader's judgment.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1992.
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Summary
Clarissa is one of the undisputed masterpieces of eighteenth-century literature and of the English novel. Recently it has also become central to poststructuralist, psychoanalytic and feminist debate. This book, whilst benefiting from recent theoretical studies, restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context. Reading the novel...
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Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader / Tom Keymer.
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Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 13.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-264) and index.
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N823.6/R525/33
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74VKZ8aW8WNZ
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0521390230 (hardback)
9780521390231 (hardback)
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823.6
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991018761569702626
