A Natural Passion
Author | : Margaret Anne Doody |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Margaret Anne Doody |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Samuel Richardson |
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Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Samuel Richardson |
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Samuel Richardson |
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Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1741 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Tassie Gwilliam |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804725225 |
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."
Author | : Stephanie Fysh |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780874136265 |
Samuel Richardson emerges in Fysh's analysis as a man on the cusp of change - in the organization of the printing industry and of labor generally, and in the nature of the literary text - and his work as a printer as well as his literary works (the two being fundamentally inseparable) come to be seen as instrumental in and representative of these changes.
Author | : Michael Bell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107493897 |
A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.
Author | : Samuel Richardson |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781108034135 |
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 ...
Author | : Samuel Richardson |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Shy and diffident in company, when addressing his friends on paper, Samuel Richardson was at ease, warm and direct. He enjoyed writing letters, and placed a high value on them as a means of deepening friendships. At his best, his letters have the ease of conversation among intimates, not the polished prose of an "author" concerned strictly with form or style. The letters in this volume have been selected from the period in which Richardson was writing his great novels. The editor has been at pains to select those letters or passages from letters that bear on the themes and characters of the novels, on his craftsmanship and literary judgments, and on his own personality. While Richardson returns again and again to certain topics, some letters or excerpts are included because they treat the same matter from a different point of view, or with new observations. The needs of the student and scholar have been uppermost in the mind of the editor, who has tried to include the most helpful texts, if at times at the cost of some repetition.