Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

Clarissa's Ciphers Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

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As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, bot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Castle, Terry (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 1982
1982.
Materias:
Richardson, Samuel, > 1689-1761. > Clarissa.
Reader-response criticism.
Rape victims in literature.
Women and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Epistolary fiction, English > History and criticism.
hermeneutics
Samuel Richardson
sexual politics
reader-response criticism
Clarissa
feminist criticism
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426988006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 . Clarissa by Halves
  • 2. Discovering Reading
  • 3. Reading the Letter, Reading the World
  • 4. Interrupting "Miss Clary"
  • 5. Denatured Signs
  • 6. The Voyage Out
  • 7. The Death of the Author: Clarissa's Coffin
  • 8. The Death of the Author: Richardson and the Reader
  • 9. Epilogue: The Reader Lives
  • Bibliographic Postscript
  • Index

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