A Natural Passion
Author: Margaret Anne Doody
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Anne Doody
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carol Houlihan Flynn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1400854040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 770
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tassie Gwilliam
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0804725225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780874136265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: William Merritt Sale
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Samuel Richardson
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781108034135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 ...