Richardsons Clarissa And The Eighteenth Century Reader

Author : Tom Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604406
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader written by Tom Keymer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst drawing to some extent on recent theoretical studies, this book restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context.

Author : Lois E. Bueler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780404648602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarissa written by Lois E. Bueler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests. The young Clarissa is tricked into fleeing with the debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. These two volumes bring together examples of the extensive and impressively varied reaction to the novel from the moment of its publication to the first edition of Richardson’s correspondence. Drawn from sources in Britain, the Continent, and North America, the material ranges from casual readers' responses to extended critical essays in the major publications of the day; from verse elegies to poetic appreciations; from an English shopkeeper's diary to a distraught young German woman's plea for pastoral advice; from fictionalized conduct books to novels about the London sex trade; from debates among the most celebrated intellectuals of the century to dramatic adaptations written in four languages.

Author : Katrin Berndt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110650444
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Katrin Berndt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.

Author : Albert J. Rivero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418929
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century written by Albert J. Rivero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521429450
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by John Richetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.

Author : Bryan Mangano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319486950
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Bryan Mangano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction. It examines how various novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, drew upon classical and early modern conceptions of true amity as a model of collaborative pedagogy. Analyzing authors, their professional circumstances, and their audiences, the study shows how the rhetoric of friendship became a means of paying deference to the increasing power of readerships, while it also served as a semi-covert means to persuade resistant readers and confront aesthetic and moral debates head on. The study contributes to an understanding of gender roles in the early history of the novel by disclosing the constant interplay between male and female models of amity. It demonstrates that this gendered dialogue shaped the way novelists imagined character interiority, reconciled with the commercial aspects of writing, and engaged mixed-sex audiences.

Author : Gary Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441163905
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook written by Gary Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including: • Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts • Guides to key critics, concepts and topics • An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research • Case studies in reading literary and critical texts • Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook is an invaluable introduction to literature and culture in the eighteenth century.

Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317097246
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture written by Anthony W. Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first collection devoted to mentoring relationships in British literature and culture, the editor and contributors offer a fresh lens through which to observe familiar and lesser known authors and texts. Employing a variety of critical and methodological approaches, which reflect the diversity of the mentoring experiences under consideration, the collection highlights in particular the importance of mentoring in expanding print culture. Topics include John Wilmot the Earl of Rochester's relationships to a range of role models, John Dryden's mentoring of women writers, Alexander Pope's problematic attempts at mentoring, the vexed nature of Jonathan Swift's cross-gender and cross-class mentoring relationships, Samuel Richardson's largely unsuccessful efforts to influence Urania Hill Johnson, and an examination of Elizabeth Carter and Samuel Johnson's as co-mentors of one another's work. Taken together, the essays further the case for mentoring as a globally operative critical concept, not only in the eighteenth century, but in other literary periods as well.

Author : Janine Barchas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521819084
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Janine Barchas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uniformity of the eighteenth-century novel in today's paperbacks and critical editions no longer conveys the early novel's visual exuberance. Janine Barchas explains how during the genre's formation in the first half of the eighteenth century, the novel's material embodiment as printed book rivalled its narrative content in diversity and creativity. Innovations in layout, ornamentation, and even punctuation found in, for example, the novels of Richardson, an author who printed his own books, help shape a tradition of early visual ingenuity. From the beginning of the novel's emergence in Britain, prose writers including Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Henry and Sarah Fielding experimented with the novel's appearance. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 graphic features found in eighteenth-century editions, this important study aims to recover the visual context in which the eighteenth-century novel was produced and read.

Author : Samuel Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Sir Charles Grandison written by Samuel Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: