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 | : 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 | : Samuel Richardson |
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Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1741 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Carol Houlihan Flynn |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400854040 |
Adding a lively voice to Richardsonian studies, Carol Houlihan Flynn traces the complex workings of a major literary imagination. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : William Merritt Sale |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Samuel Richardson |
Publisher | : Publio Kiadó Kft. |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9633818214 |
Since most publishers of Pamela have preferred to print Richardson’s table of contents from the sixth edition, his complete introduction (his preface, together with letters to the editor and comments) is missing even from some of our best collections. Occasionally one finds the preface and the first two letters, but only four publishers since Richardson have attempted to reprint the full introduction. Harrison (London, 1785) -- who omits the first letter -- and Cooke (London, 1802-3) both follow Richardson’s eighth edition; Ballantyne (Edinburgh, 1824) uses the fourth; the Shakespeare Head (Oxford, 1929), the third. And even these printings leave one dissatisfied. The Shakespeare Head gives the fullest text, but naturally omits Richardson’s revisions; Cooke gives the introduction in its final form, but one misses the full text which accompanied the book in its heyday; and rarely are both Cooke and Shakespeare Head to be found in the same library.