Richardson s Clarissa and the Eighteenth Century Reader Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 24 June 2004

Whilst drawing to some extent on recent theoretical studies, this book restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context.

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

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

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 21 March 2019

Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.

• Publisher : Penguin Classics
• File Size : 38,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

"Oh thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!" Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she

• Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 April 2018

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 21,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 November 2017

What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson's other novels is Richardson's unique awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, in its engagement with virtually every

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 52,8 Mb
• Release Date : 03 October 2013

This edited collection, a tribute to the late noted eighteenth-century scholar Betty Rizzo, testifies to her influence as a researcher, writer, teacher, and mentor. The essays, written by a range

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 28 September 2012

Examining the work of three authors: Richardson, Haywood and Burney, and their representation of domestic space, this book argues that to make such spaces accessible to modern readers they need

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 48,7 Mb
• Release Date : 05 September 1996

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

• Publisher : JHU Press
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• Release Date : 21 January 2009

Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male.